My Phantom Pyrexia in General Mental Anesthesia

Having not left home in nine days; how I suddenly got sick is certainly strange, but not quite as strange as the sickness itself.

I wasn’t congested, no runny nose, not sneezing & no sore throat. I ALWAYS get a sore throat.

A few days ago, Sunday (early evening) I started to feel like I might be getting a fever, but I get migraines often, so I didn’t read too much into it at first.

An hour or two goes by and now I’m really starting to feel quite a bit of pressure in my skull and I’m feeling hot, so I take out my thermometer. My normal body temperature is around 97.5, so anything over 99 and I start to feel feverish.

I double checked just to make sure my thermometer was accurate.

Yup.

By 1 am my fever was on the rise…

It was a long night. A miserable night.

Safe to say, I didn’t get any sleep at all.

I was using cold compresses, an ice pack, anything I could to cool off.

My fever peaked at 102, but never really went down. The following day was rough, but I toughed it out at home, I wasn’t going to go to the hospital, perhaps I would’ve considered it if there were decent hospitals and Dr’s where I live because as the day wore on, things got really bad.

For the next 11 or 12 hours (mid afternoon to after midnight) my fever was over 103! Peaking at 103.7. I was on FIRE!!!

I ended up calling my pharmacist because I just wasn’t going to go to the hospital. I can’t take fever reducers. I can’t take Advil because I’m on blood thinners and I can’t take aspirin or Tylenol because I’m on Dilaudid, I needed advice.

The pharmacist said with a fever that high, it was worth the risk to try and take Advil. A few doses, you likely won’t bleed to death from stomach ulcers, but that fever has to come down.
The second I hung up the phone, I took a couple of Advil. It didn’t help. My fever remained above 103. A few hours later, I took a couple more, and then slowly, I could feel the heat in my head / face lesson. I took my temperature around midnight. 102.9. and by 2am it was 101.6. Just 2 degrees, but it felt like 500 degrees cooler.

The whole time I had an ice pack on my head, neck and face.

I didn’t sleep well, but when I got up several times to get sick (uc) I took my temp and it kept dropping. 100 something, 99 and change and now I’m in the high 98’s (which is still a degree higher than my normal) but I feel normal. I feel crappy actually, I feel sick, but I don’t have a fever.

I went to the Dr’s yesterday, they’re fast tracking blood work because of my high fever the last couple of days. My heart rate was in the 140’s. Blood Pressure 100/60.

Got tested for Covid again. I don’t think I have it, I can’t imagine I do, with my respiratory issues… I’d likely be dead by now if that were true. Either way, it still means I’m in quarantine.

3 Covid tests. 4 long swabs, 2 short. 1 is rapid response. Why 3? I have no idea.

Dr. is concerned something is going on with the gallbladder. Remember, I still have gallstones.

I did have severe sharp pains this morning in that area, it wasn’t colitis related, and it hurt when the Dr. probed the area.

What are the odds I stay out of the hospital this coming week?

Oh, and speaking of hospitals… a friend of mine who wishes to remain anonymous, put this short video together for me and asked me to share it. He/She (I won’t give away the identity) isn’t able to donate to the GFM page and so He/She created a montage of shots from my social media pages (we’ve been friends a long time) to show me when I’m in remission from colitis vs when I’m in a flare state like now in the hopes that people will watch it and better understand visually how the disease physically and mentally affects the mind and body. How I look in general, how Inflamed, unable to breath, hospitalized, thin and weak, bleeding, in pain and sickly. It could have been a much longer video, but I’m glad it’s not because it can be hard to watch and difficult to create.

I was blown away and very surprised when I saw it. Thank you so very much. You know who you are.

I’m freaking exhausted though man… Everythink is a chore.

I just feel so beat up. Can you tell?

Can’t a guy just a catch a break?

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Last updated February 06, 2021