# Guess the illness **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233 "2001-02-28T17:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/1 "2001-02-28T17:06:10Z")
Hi all. I’m sick. I’m going to head over to Student Health later to see what they say (“strep throat or sinus infection, have some codine” is my guess…mainly because that’s what they say to everyone.) Symptoms are as follows: general unhappy/unenergy, minor sore throat (may be due more to very dry room last night than any illness) and semi severe internal pain. (left side, under ribs, inflammation?) In kid speak, I hurt and i wanna go home. Anyway, your hypotheses are welcome, if only to offer to Student Health before they give me codine. (Yea, I should probably see a doctor…maybe…eventually) ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/2 "2001-02-28T17:27:39Z")
With abdominal pain, honey, anything goes. Hope its just an upset tummy. Pain in the abdominal area can be referred (i.e. felt in a place it shouldn’t) so it’s hard to say. Hope you feel better. Follow Dr’s order, get lots of sleep, and have some chicken soup. A good steamy shower might help that sore throat if its dry. ::pours a nice hot cup of soup for **Medea’s** :: ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/3 "2001-02-28T18:15:08Z")
{{{Medea’s Child}}} I’m sorry to hear that, hon. Don’t worry about e-mailing me–get some rest instead. As for what you can tell Student Health? Say you think it’s variant CJD and proceed to rant about how the medical establishment has thus far all but ignored the horrible prion threat. Either that or Ebola. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/4 "2001-02-28T18:58:29Z")
She’s coming around folks! She’s going to be okay and ready to play Symptom Six of “Beat the Reaper!” Plague? Yaws? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/5 "2001-02-28T19:08:34Z")
Well, I’m not a doctor or even a particularly talented hypochondriac, but the left-side ache and lack of energy could indicate mono. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/6 "2001-02-28T19:26:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > \*\*She’s coming around folks! She’s going to be okay and ready to play Symptom Six of “Beat the Reaper!” > > Plague? Yaws? \*\* …I’m turning yellow…my God, I’ve got _jaundice!_ [sub]dropzone, ya beat me to it, durn ya. ;)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/7 "2001-02-28T19:27:23Z")
[high-school mode] Oooooh! The kissing disease! _point_ _snicker_ [/high-school mode] Wait a second, you’re supposed come visit me _this_ weekend… Please get better? Pretty please? ---
**Author:** ![inor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f475e1/32.png) [@inor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inor)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/8 "2001-02-28T19:47:15Z")
HA! Zey arrr alll wronk! Itt iss obfiously someting der mater mit your schlossengfgrubenhohenhausennonnenslupt! :peers at mc over the top of the rented specs, being all hot and says in a greasy, obsequious voice: eeyou vill feel bet-ter nowww, ja? Imbeciles!!! (spits and stalks out /////) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/9 "2001-02-28T20:13:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > \*\*Plague? Yaws? \*\* geez, nobody else is saying it… “Hey, Dropzone! What’s yaws?” mutter grumble buncha amateurs… ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/10 "2001-02-28T22:40:21Z")
Thanks guys, the smiles help. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/11 "2001-02-28T23:25:13Z")
Hope you feel better soon, **Medea’s Child**. And I had no idea that Jaundice was the kissing disease, **mrblue92**. 😉 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/12 "2001-03-01T00:13:45Z")
CJD?-what’s that? Feel better soon, hon! {{{Kathryn}}} ---
**Author:** ![inor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f475e1/32.png) [@inor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inor)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/13 "2001-03-01T00:21:31Z")
Ve vill haff no more tok off her yaws. Zey arre choost fine, aszyoo can see. Nor plague insterlieben. Look at her teeth. Fine, no? Ja. ---
**Author:** ![relic\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@relic\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relic_11)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/14 "2001-03-01T00:32:23Z")
::makes Medea some of my jewish grandmother’s homemade chicken soup, with oyster crackers:: Honey, I send you warm fuzzies, love, and anti-bodies. I hope you get better really fast so we can play the lovely sport of inor smooching again soon… [sub]P.S. I got your email, I just didn’t know what to say… I’m better now, just a little sad sometimes…Thank you sooooooo much…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/15 "2001-03-01T00:38:37Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by silent\_rob_ > I had no idea that Jaundice was the kissing disease, mrblue92. If you kiss enough ass and get hepatitis, it just might be… > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Guinastasia_ > CJD?-what’s that? CJD is an extremely rare brain disorder. Variant CJD is the human version of “Mad Cow Disease” (AKA Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy). > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by inor \* > Look at her teeth. > Fine, no? > Ja. Her teeth are fine? Hell, **she’s** fine. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/16 "2001-03-01T05:39:45Z")
My very first thought when I read your symptoms (well, no, actually I had to think first): Lung infection. Possibly you’ve been around something that dried up your throat and lungs, making the mucus membranes less capable of cleaning your lungs out, and _con resultat_ you’ve got yerself an infection. Or some dry lungs/throat. ---
**Author:** ![inor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f475e1/32.png) [@inor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inor)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/17 "2001-03-01T06:29:25Z")
> [@](#): > > I hope you get better really fast so we can play the lovely sport of inor smooching again soon… you both got one coming- I’m working on it. And I’m even thinking about limiting the damn profanity…I might hurt myself doing that though, so it’s iffy at the moment… 😉 (relic- i been leaving you alone- time for funs and time for sads…been thinking about you though…medea? i spit tenderly in your direction…) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/18 "2001-03-01T13:47:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > **"Hey, Dropzone! What’s yaws?"** A nonvenereal relative of syphilis. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/19 "2001-03-01T19:39:07Z")
dropzone…the answer to “What’s yaws?” is actually “I’ll have a hard cider, thanks.” or some varient thereof. Thanks for all the support and love guys, I’m doing better today, really tired, but better. relic, sweetie, like I said, feel free to get in touch if you want. Ahh back to bed… Oh and I just want to give a public thank you to Le Sang for letting me be sick in his room and microwave stuff and just in general taking care of me. Steve, I tried to e-mail you and it did an instant fail…any idea why? ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233/20 "2001-03-01T19:50:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Steve, I tried to e-mail you and it did an instant fail…any idea why? The T1’s have been kind of flaky today, so I’m guessing that’s the problem. Can you try to resend it? Glad to hear you’re doing better; hope you didn’t get Joel sick… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-illness/56233.md?page=2)