# What caused my 24 hour "flu" and high fever? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 29, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-my-24-hour-flu-and-high-fever/705899 "2014-11-29T17:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-my-24-hour-flu-and-high-fever/705899/21 "2014-11-30T18:59:04Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Also, our memory plays tricks on us. Maybe she said some higher number than 100 with .8, and you’ve remembered the 8 more than the other number. When recalling a memory that is strange, our brain has a tendency to make it stranger than it was every time you recall it. It’s why that big fish becomes bigger and bigger every time you tell the story. > > If you can find the records, that would be pretty neat. That’s the reason I’m allowing for the possibility that it didn’t play out that way. Assuming the records exist, and the person who’s sent to get the records survives their trip to the horrible place where they are kept, I’ll give an update about it. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-my-24-hour-flu-and-high-fever/705899/22 "2014-11-30T20:17:57Z")
> [@Omega\_Glory](#): > > I know Wyoming County, but not Perry. It must really be tiny. It has as its claim to fame of the Silver Lake Sea Monster [hoax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake,_Wyoming_County,_New_York) =) [URL=“[http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/)”] ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-my-24-hour-flu-and-high-fever/705899/23 "2014-12-01T19:59:32Z")
The symptoms you describe are the same ones I have when I have a flare up of **viral meningitis** – extreme body aches, chills, fever to 102, awful headache – lasts 24 hours or a bit less. No vomiting or diarrhea that you’d see with the norvo virus. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-my-24-hour-flu-and-high-fever/705899/24 "2014-12-03T16:41:58Z")
I can’t imagine they would’ve just told you rest and fluids - when my husband had a temp of 104 (though he had the actual flu), I was instructed to get him to urgent care if his fever hadn’t come down within 45 minutes of taking some ibuprofen. And my daughter once had roseola and woke with a fever of 105.7. She was staggering around like a drunken sailor until the fever reducer took effect. I, too, am surprised you were able to drag yourself in and, if your fever was 108, they were incredibly negligent in just sending you on your merry way. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-my-24-hour-flu-and-high-fever/705899/25 "2014-12-03T20:46:12Z")
I’m surprised I was able to drag myself in, too. I found an old post describing the trip there and back as the the longest walk of my life, which is true, even though the trip wasn’t that far. There were no records, so this is where the story will end. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-my-24-hour-flu-and-high-fever/705899.md?page=1)