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I had a 107 degree fever as a child with pneumonia, possibly secondary to the Asian Influenza epidemic. It was in August. I was put into a bathtub with ice and didn't feel cold. Hallucinated a lot, still recall everything I saw. This was actually a good experience because in later life altered states of consciousness have never fazed me.
I remember my mother's face after the doctor talked to her. She looked grim.
Ha! A person who understands altered states. That is some high fever!!!!!
I just saw in a movie they put someone in ice water, borrowing ice from neighbors!
About 8 years ago I had a period where I was required to work long hours and I got sick with what I think was the flu about 4 times in a span of 3 months. I'd get sick, stay out a week, come back a week, then get sick again. Good thing those long hours only lasted for a few months. I think my body was telling me something so I got a new job after that. It was a really bad case of the flu each time. The kind where just getting out of bed was a pain. At night was the worst, the highest I measured my temperature was 105, which I heard later is very high for an adult. I was feeling so miserable I thought there was a chance I'd fall asleep at night and never wake up.
The highest that my temperature ever got was 106. I was having an allergic reaction, which we thought was toxic shock syndrome. My skin was bright red and I kept fainting. My mom gave me some tylenol and I went to sleep in a closet (we were staying in a hotel, don't ask me why I slept in the closet and not in a bed) and I was fine the next day. I really should have gone to the hospital while I was having the reaction, but my mom was embarrassed by anything that she considered a female sickness. I never realized it was an allergic reaction until 5 or 6 years later, when I used the same product I'd used that day and had the same symptoms.
I don't know how high my fever was, but I can remember an episode as a child when my mother put me in a tub of ice water. I was less than 6. I remember sitting there shivering, watching the cubes float around. In the next day or two I was put in the hospital with pneumonia for a week.
Oh Gosh! The ER ...worthless pieces of...
can't remember 2,3, or was it 4 hrs before I was seen?
I had no control friends took me...left with aspirin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ooh I've had a bunch. My highest was when I was 8 or 9. I woke up one morning with an extremely painful, large lump (baseball sized) on my neck. My wonderful parents just said, "Oh its a lymph node, you're getting sick" or something like that. So I went to school like that. Started getting a fever.. wasn't too bad. Took about a week off school, no change in neck but fever started getting worse. Parents got a call from the school pretty accusing them of not sending me to school. So I go back to school, first day back I pass out after lunch, they call my parents and I go home. That night my fever spikes to 105 and my mom takes me to the ER. I spent a week in the hospital. Xrays of my neck, tests up the wazoo. Never did figure out what caused the bump or my fever or anything. Started getting better once they put me on IV antibiotics, but they still weren't sure if it was the antibiotics or just coincidence.
I've since been prone to major throat infections, causing me to get bad fevers for a week at a time.. For the past several years as soon as I start getting a throat infection I go straight to the Dr for antibiotics. Thankfully its been a few years now.
Also had what I believe was rocky mountain spotted fever about 5 years ago (or maybe another tick borne illness). During summer I was very active and had lots of ticks get ahold of me. Came down with unexplained fever of 101-103. Lasted two weeks. Right before the fever went away I found a partly engorged tiny tick between my ass and leg, so that is where the tick assumption comes from.
106, I had an infection in my mastoid... I never knew it..
I didn't even know what a mastoid was... It almost killed me, the fever saved my life..
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