My thumb has been oddly sore for the last day or two, figured I sprained it. Until tonight when I started getting fever and then goddamn petichial rash started appearing on my arms and back(I’ve had dengue before and it looks identical).
So I either have chikungunya or dengue again(there are four strains of dengue and having one means you can never get it again, but there are three more you can get).
Shit, I don’t feel as bad as I did the time I had dengue but who knows what the next few days will bring, no treatment and a herbal remedy for the weakness papaya leaf is out because the papaya trees got cut down.
And to make thing worse my wife thinks she might have it too, although she is not showing signs of the rash.
Another dengue survivor here. I am sure you are aware that with the development of the rash, dengue can be serious. Be careful and monitor your vital signs. If the wife has it also, ask someone to check in on you periodically.
Last year we were surprised to see signs warning of dengue and chikungunya when we were vacationing in St Martin. Won’t stop us from going again this January, but shit.
Oh joy. Just got past an episode myself. Still generally achey. Spent a few days looking like a screentoned comicbook character and having the worst time getting up off the chair while quite feverish. Damn mosquitos.
Dude, go to the doc and check it out. And in the meantime, get rid of mosquito breeding grounds around your house.
Chikungunya has more lasting after effects than dengue. It’s more likely dengue, as it seems at least officially in Trinidad chikungunya is still in low numbers (compared to other islands, for example Puerto Rico). But either way, go get checked. You have health insurance!
Eh there isn’t much point, first time I had dengue doctor looks at the rash goes yep that is dengue, take some ibuprofen or cataflam and if you get dehydrated go to the public hospital. Then as an afterhought told me if the weakness got really bad to drink a mash of papaya leaves, I think I had asked here about it.
There is no treatment aside from pain killers.
The weakness DID get bad and how, I was not right for a month.
You’re right though that it is probably dengue and not chikungunya(I’ve also heard it pronounced chicken-goon-ya).
Well I seem to have totally recovered, my wife got the rash too.
I don’t know if it was chikungunya or dengue, but I’ve never seen anything like this before! Almost everyone in the area has it or had it, just today I passed a woman on the street by the house walking like a stiff zombie with a pained look on her face and I was like oh yea I know that look(you walk trying not to move your joints lol).
Almost my wife’s entire family and almost all the neighbors either have it or had it, damn.