# Technical term for exhaustion
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-term-for-exhaustion/829048
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 6, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-term-for-exhaustion/829048 "2019-02-06T04:00:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-term-for-exhaustion/829048/1 "2019-02-06T04:00:14Z")
So, what I’m asking is; is there a technical term for when the body is totally exhausted while fighting an infection, causing a short period when symptoms seem to improve as the body rests?
friday night and i need a bite, master snaps my collar on nice and tight, old logging chain for a leash is right, but what i need to get me tight is those SQUIRRELS SQUIRRELS SQUIRRELS
Mutley flu squirrels squirrels squirrels
Also, would I know if I was delirious?
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-term-for-exhaustion/829048/2 "2019-02-06T04:04:43Z")
Fatigue. As for delirium? No, I don’t think you would know.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-term-for-exhaustion/829048/3 "2019-02-06T04:21:14Z")
I’ve heard of people referring to the end of chemotherapy as a “honeymoon period,” because the chemotherapy makes them feel so awful that taking it away makes whatever symptoms of cancer are left feel better in comparison.
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### Author:  [@UCBearcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UCBearcats)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-term-for-exhaustion/829048/4 "2019-02-06T04:23:26Z")
Burned the f\*\*\* out
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-term-for-exhaustion/829048/5 "2019-02-06T14:48:06Z")
Fatigue, damn, I coulda figured that out. Was sorta hoping for something cool, as I sit here suffering through winning the flu lottery. Got vaccinated back in early November, caught a different strain.
Just so you know, right now I hate all of you equally. With the blackest of hate.
Except beckdawreck, she’s too sweet to hate. So she’s first into the vats 😉
earworms, get yer earworms, for this mod-historic tragedy
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### Author:  [@Baka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baka)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-term-for-exhaustion/829048/6 "2019-02-06T15:00:02Z")
Deceased