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No tips from me, because it sounds like you are doing everything right. Tylenol, liquids and rest is exactly what I would do. I agree with you, it sounds viral.
Hope you feel better!
I load myself up with blankets to break the fever. I always reach a point where warmer is better and then BOOM, while I'm sleeping, I'll kick off the covers and no more fever.
Chicken soup (your Mama was right) or just broth, ginger ale for any nausea, warm bath ...rest, drink plenty of liquids and sleep. Hope you feel better soon.
Hot Toddy. A measure or two of whiskey or rum (I prefer rum), juice of 1 lemon, top up with boiling water, then dissolve a spoonful of honey (or as much as you like) in it to taste. Apparently you shouldn't use alcohol as a remedy, but it makes me feel better!! You could just skip the alcohol all together...
Chicken soup! No one really knows why but there's evidence to suggest it actually helps.
Add gratings of root ginger to the soup, yummy. SO makes this for me when I'm poorly.
@Miss Longcoat: I did that last night hoping to break the fever. And at one point did get way too hot and sweaty, but the fever didn't break. That's about when it hit 102. I'll try that again today.
@smyley: I have no appetite at all, but maybe DH can pick up some broth on the way home. I do have some chicken ramen that I'll eat if I get hungry, but as of right now I really don't want it. I will take a warm shower in a bit hopefully that will help with the aches and pains. Unfortunately the bathtub is in our second bathroom and that's where the cat's litter box lives (in the bath tub) so that he doesn't track litter everywhere. I really don't feel like cleaning the bathtub just so I can take a bath.
@ladyartichoke: I did have some hot mulled cider with a small measure of rum in it last night. It made my throat feel better (and now my sore throat is almost completely gone).
@jillmatt: Thanks, it just sucks when you are doing all that you should and you still don't feel better.
The no appetite thing is pretty common, but you do need to keep up your strength to help your body fight it off. What you're describing sounds exactly like what happened to my daughter the week before Christmas, and the Dr. said it would last about a week. It got worse instead of better and she ended up with a sinus infection and stomach virus, and antibiotics for the infection, and a liquid med to coat her stomach so she could eat. It's really no fun....
@ladyartichoke: <-- You can never go wrong with hot toddy! I get sick VERYYYYYYY RARELY and anytime I do, or even feel a slight inkling of it, I will make a hot toddy. Only exception is that I make it with [a good quality] brandy. The results are quick and painless.
@smyley: That sounds awful. I really hope this doesn't last a full week.
If it gets worse I will see a doctor, but hopefully it'll run it's course in a few days.
Maybe I'll try some orange juice.
I eat raw garlic (mix it with peanut butter) by the ton when I get sick and I swear it works and I feel better in a day. I also load up on raw natural honey, the kind that has the stuff from the hive on the top. I am blanking on what its called right now.
@DVsMom: I don't think my stomach could handle that combo at the moment and I really dislike honey, not sure why... but I've never liked it.
@NehaPrasad92: That's what I'm trying to do. Sadly I didn't sleep well at all last night. I only seem to be able to sleep for a few hours at a time.
Took a hot shower and that seemed to help a bit. I'm going to try and clean up around the apartment a bit while I feel ok and then go back to laying on the couch.
I don't know why, but I drink a glass of EXTRA spicy tomato juice and it helps. I second the "sweat it out" method (getting under crazy warm covers and falling asleep).
Beyond that, tea, orange juice, vitamin C and echinacea, warm baths and sleep.
A really hot bath with grated ginger and salt in it, drink water while I'm in it and then get wrapped up in bed with lots of duvets and a hot toddy (again with ginger).
Chicken soup also really helps.
My ultimate solution is a ridiculously spicy curry added to the first paragraph above. It really helps me shake off a cold/flu.
My dr's office told me that any px medication for the flu only cuts (AT MOST) a day off recovery - and the side effects may not be worth it. When i'm sick , one of the last things I wanna do is sit in a dr's office for a few hours (seriously, my partner wasn't even sick and had an appt, and we spent 2.5 hours at the chiropractor's yesterday). When I'm feeling like I have the flu, I try to drink fluids. This means that I pick up (or rather, send my partner out to get) Gatorade (I think the low cal G2) in several flavors, those low cal/low sugar flavored waters, and tea. Anything that may get fluids in me! My partner (he's a nurse) says that any of the sugary waters can actually make you feel worse. Then I put one of those in any room I *may* go in. I figure if it's right there, I am more likely to drink it. Also, chicken noodle soup is supposed to help - but it's too mcuh when I'm sick so I just eat that Mrs Grass noodle soup. If nothing else, I sip the broth. If i'm really nausous I take some Zofran (ah, the benefits of having chronic health issues - I *always* have this and Phenergan laying around b/c if I can't keep down my meds, I'm in trouble!).
Then I just try to take it easy. I usually camp out on the couch and do lots of Netflix!
I hope you feel better soon lady! If the blanket bonanza doesn't work, I like to just veg and crochet.
Definitely load up on all of the natural remedies...vitamin C, echinacea, green tea, etc. If you still have the fever, try an aspirin like Bayer. I've been sick which seems like forever but I had a fever 2 days ago. I took bayer for the rest of the night and the fever went away. Feel better!!
I just had this happen to me! Last Wednesday I got home and was 101. I was freezing so I took a hot shower, then bundled up. Then I was sweating and I thought I was supposed to do that- sweat it out- DH came home and told me we have to reduce heat- so he kept a cool washcloth on my forehead the entire night and I took tylenol, which helped. I had forgotten that- because it had been probably 20 years since I had a fever!
ETA: So I am still resting and drinking tons of water, green tea, and garlic. You can actually make garlic tea. (It isn't as gross as it sounds.) Otherwise, make soup with loads of garlic. Eat veggies and fruits (I do smoothies at home). I also love kombucha.
In addition to the fluids, rest, and chicken soup, I also make this awesome elderberry-echinacea syrup: http://www.crunchybetty.com/your-natural-medicine-cabinet-elderberry-echinacea-syrup-recipe
It works like magic, or at least has so far. I took it when I first started getting a scratchy throat and felt fine in a few hours. My FI was very ill with stomach problems, and he took it and felt much better the next day. Now, it could be that the bugs we caught had run their course, or the placebo effect, but I don't care, cause it works!
That same website has another good recipe for homemade vaporub that's very nice and all-natural.
Didn't eat anything yesterday except some crackers and a cookie.
Hit 102.2 last night and woke up at 100.4 this morning.
Although now it's down to 99.1. I'm really hoping I'll feel normal in time for tonight's new year's party. But if I don't, I won't go.
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Ok, so I haven't run an actual fever in 4 years now so I can't remember how to make myself feel better.
Yesterday it started as low grade. Hit 101.7 when I went to bed, and I woke up in the middle of the night feeling awful at 102. Chills, sweating, slight nausea, the whole shebang.
This morning about back to 101.7. I've been talking tylenol. Drinking lots of water and resting.
I have ZERO appetite and have a fairly productive cough (which has resulted in some really badly sore ribs on my right hand side).
Other than tylenol, liquids, and rest is there anything that makes you feel better when you feel like this?
I'm wondering if I have the flu for the first time ever in my life and it's not fun. I'm pretty sure it's viral and my fever isn't dangerously high so there's no reason to go and sit for hours in a doctor's waiting room.
Sorry for the whiney, pity party post.