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Can anyone define this scary illness I had?

Asked by Aster (20028points) September 3rd, 2014

This is Wednesday. On Sunday night, I believe, I began feeling slightly anxious. And cold. I got in bed and the shaking began. My teeth were chattering, my head and hands were shaking and I was just shaking all over. Only a grand mal seizure could have looked worse. In half an hour it rapidly subsided. I took off some of the quilts and turned on the tv. In an hour I went to sleep then had a fitful night of fever. I wish I had had a thermometer. Next day I was up and not tired but had a nice day and Monday night I slept really well . Has one single other person ever had this illness ? If I had to guess I’d say it was caused by a bad tooth I’m having looked at next week.

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downtide's avatar

omg I had almost the exact same thing this weekend, a fever struck me out of the blue on Saturday afternoon. I was worse on Sunday, swinging from freezing cold to burning hot, couldn’t even eat (and for me that’s really bad as I’m prone to hypoglycaemia; I almost passed out from that on the Monday evening). But by Tuesday morning I was totally back to normal again. It was like a flu-sort of fever, but without the associated cold/flu symptoms, and gone as suddenly as it started. I chalked it down to some mutation of a cold or flu virus.

Aster's avatar

Interesting. I couldn’t stand up or talk. You had it a whole lot longer than I did. I was only sick for a couple hours at best. My hands were twisting as fast as possible from right to left like trying to open a round doorknob at top speed. Like a severe case of Parkinson’s. I could have died and not even cared just to be able to be still .
The scariest part is not knowing how long the shaking would last and if I’d damage some muscles.

rojo's avatar

Any chance it could be some form or reaction to food poisoning?

Aster's avatar

^^^ Sure; I suppose there’s a chance but we ate at home and I never got nauseated.

sujenk7422's avatar

Sounds like a virulent bug for sure. I’ve seen a few cases lately of rapid temperature spikes with chills, only to subside in a few hours. Just one more of the hundreds of viruses floating around!

Stinley's avatar

The shakes are called rigors or chills and are the body’s reaction to a virus or bacterial infection, then the high temperature is the body fighting it off. You got better so quickly, it was possibly just a mild virus. But the fact that you have the toothache is a bit worrying since it might suggest the infection has spread a little. Could you phone your dentist and tell him/her?

Aster's avatar

^^^^^ thank you. Yes; I called a new dentist and have an appointment next week. I am also on Cipro, 500mg 2x daily. So it doesn’t hurt but it’s beige!

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