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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath15
Couple of things here.
While the fever has spike from time to time, it's consistently been low grade between 99.5 and 102.
It hasn't been a month. Today is Day 19 and have been fever free the last 24 hours.
As I've pointed out in past posts, there was no reason to retest - easier to assume I have it - and doc's more convinced now that I did. Would have required me leaving my home again, which is a challenge itself, ignoring the risk to anyone I came in contact with.
A positive test wouldn't have changed my course of treatment.
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I see but wow 19 days is a long time.
When I was 16 years old I developed a fever that every 2 hours would rise as high as 105 to 106 would break and I would convulse and sweat drops as big as a nickles then be fine 2 hours all over again. Parents took me to Doctor seen what was happening as it went up right there I told him I worked at Worlds of Fun and that triggered a look in his eye of concern. St Lukes was right there and he had me admitted. They put me in quarantine where I was for two days being poked and prodded by specialists at all times in a day. They couldn't figure it out and were worried because stuff at park came from Asian countries like Taiwan. After 2 days I was out of quarantine and they suspected Tick fever but couldn't find a tick or even a splotch where one had been. Tylenol was new then and not yet over the counter it was breaking the 106 fever and after eight days I was released. They send lab work to Atlanta what is now known as the CDC but that would 6 weeks to get back results Doc said Id be over it by then. Parents needed a answer so insurance would cover all the specialists so he wrote it up as Colorado Tick bite fever parents said they covered all. Later at about 6 weeks results came back positive rocky mountain spotted fever. I was the first in 15 years in Missouri diagnosed with this by year end 3 people got total. Doc said I was close to being put in ice to break a fever and if it went above 106 ice bath. He told me any fever that persists for over a week at 102 needs to be closely monitored some of that has change I guess.
Good luck to you those fevers take it out of you
PS: They actually had a medicine that would have got me healthy faster but without knowing for sure it could have been fatal if it was some other things that was a possibility if I remember like Typhoid. So I fought it off and have a natural immunity and then Lyme disease came along.
Now when I get ticks on me I torture them on a hot hood of the work truck.