I had one at 104.4. I’m not sure about the .4, but It was somewhere in there. I’m positive about the 104. I was in the hospital and got a UTI from a foley catheter. My body decided the best way to get rid of the infection was to cook myself. Good times!
105.5, age 6, molar coming in.
And yes, I still remember the hallucinations I had.
I think I also had a 105 fever when I was 3, also due to molars coming in.
106, mononucleosis. Age 13. Nearly died.
105.8, age 11. I can’t remember exactly what it was (I was really out of it, of course, and my mom doesn’t remember, either), but I know it had started out as the flu. Spent nearly a week in the hospital.
I don’t know about childhood, but I had a fever of 105 at 30, from the flu. Scared the hell out of me. It messed up my ears: I had broken speaker noises for a few years, and have had tinnitus ever since. Didn’t go to the hospital, though. I’ve had flu shots every year since.
104ish during a stomach thing in the hot and humid, no-air-conditioning St. Louis summer. Ugh. I got dehydrated and would list to one side during my rare attempts at walking. We tried the cold bath recommended in “Where There Is No Doctor” but gave up and went to the hospital for some Compazine and fluid IV.
I had the flu or something about 8 years ago. Before I knew it, my temp was 105. When my girlfriend noticed that I was acting odd, she insisted on taking my temp.
I had no insurance, so I took a shower, slowly bringing it down to cold from hot, and that seemed to break it. That was really painful to do, but it worked and I didn’t die or anything. We kept an eye on it, and it didn’t go back over 102, so I guess it was okay.
The thing I remember most from it was that my brain wouldn’t track right when I moved my head. It was like my brain was in a jar and when I turned the jar (my head) the brain stayed in the same place in the middle.
Apparently, it was when I started talking about the floaty butterflies that my girlfriend brought out the themometer. That and the giggling.
Age ten, scarlet fever. (How many people you know who had friggin’ scarlet fever as late as 1985?) I believe Mom recalls the highest measured temp being 104.8, which is incredibly high for me, as my “normal” body temp is somewhere around 97.5. I don’t remember delirium or delusions (though Mom assures me I had them, and they were fun), but I do remember the elephant-sized injection of penicillin I got at the doctor’s. Couldn’t sit right for two weeks.
It wasn’t till a year or two later, when we watched The Miracle Worker in school that I realized Helen Keller had been a victim of scarlet fever, and that my eyesight (and my hearing, to a vastly lesser extent) went downhill right about that time.
Yes, definately, Draelin, I’ve had it twice.
The first time I was about 7 (1980) and it took me weeks to get better.
The next time, all four of us kids got it at the same time.
My mom said that she knew there was something seriously wrong when she came home from work and found the four of us just… sitting there.
We were lined up on the couch, staring at the TV. Not talking, reading, teasing, or even realling watching TV. Just… staring. She said it scared the crap out of her.
I believe I had 104.6 due to a stomach virus when I was 9 years old. I remember being at the pediatrician’s office and him asking if I thought I would throw up, and I said no. A few minutes later I let fly. I was most upset about getting it on my outfit, lol.
- I started aching all over after one of my morning classes, and walked over to the campus health center. The people at the health center usually aren’t that helpful, but once they took my temperature, everyone got a lot more concerned.
They said it was probably mono, but since I got better over the weekend, they said I didn’t have to come back for a follow-up visit, so who knows if that was the real problem or not.
Weird, i have tinnitus off and on too. I don’t know if it started with fevers.
The highest I can recall was 104.2 in Spring of 2002. Normally when i’m sick it only goes up to 101 or so now.
About six years ago, I ended up with a kidney stone related blood infection (a stone was blocking my urethra, and urine was backing up into my blood stream). My MIL was sitting with me, since I was sick and hubby had to go to work. We didn’t have a working thermometer, and MIL kept trying to convince me to go to the hospital but I wouldn’t; I specifically remember feeling like if I could just sleep long enough, I’d be fine. Finally, hubby called to check on me, and he made me go to the hospital. When I got there, my temp was 104.7. Needless to say, they admitted me immediately and put me on IV antibiotics; but the first combo of antibiotics weren’t working properly, and my second night in the hospital, my temp spiked up to 105.6. Delerious? Oh, yeah. I was totally having conversations with people who were not having conversations with me, and when hubby came to the hospital to visit me, I didn’t even acknowledge his presence. After I recovered, he told me that for the first couple of days, he was so convinced I wasn’t going to live that he was trying to figure out how the hell he was going to break it to our kids that I was dead. 
Back when I was a kid I went over 105 three different times. Once for strept throat, once with either mumps or measles and once with what they called “The Croup.” That last one was the worst…3 days in an oxygen tent in the hospital for that.
Fortunately, my overall health got a lot better once I hit about 8 years old. 
Jammer
106 as a kid. I had the strep throat, and was secretly grinding up the pencillen behind my mother’s back. :smack: I did not hallucinate, but I remember trying to walk to the bathroom and collapsing to the floor. My fever broke that day, so I really don’t know what it peaked at, and I haven’t had strep throat since. (I used to get it annually.)
Just under 104, and it stayed above 101 for two weeks. I think it was when I first got my autoimmune hypothyroidism, because I felt draggy for a long, long time after the temperature went down.
My highest fever that I remember was 104.6 when I had a kidney infection. I thought I was going to die. My son, on the other hand, just spent the last weekend hovering at 104.2 (virus and getting a molar at the same time). He didn’t even blink and eye - played like normal, wasn’t fussy except at night.
They (doctors, baby books) tell you now to just keep a child comfortable and not to go out of your way to bring the fever down. When your body’s fighting an infection, the higher temperature is your its way of helping to kill off microorganisms, so fever really isn’t a bad thing. My paediatrician told me not to give my son anything (acetaminophen, ibuprofen) unless it made either him or me more comfortable to do so.
Draelin, I’ve also had scarlet fever - it’s not as uncommon as you may think. It’s caused by the same bacteria as strep throat. When I had it, I also had symptoms of strep throat. I was about 9 and, unfortunately, came down with it on a Friday morning. My mom took me to the doctor and I was given antibiotics. I was all better by Monday morning and had to go to school :mad: . It’s funny that this is one of the few childhood illnesses that I remember vividly, mainly because I was sooo pissed off that I didn’t get out of more school.
I had a 104.something about 14 years ago when I was in college. I had both mono and strep thoat. I wouldn’t say I had full blown hallucinations, but I do distinctly remember laying there on my bed but feeling like I was laying on the ceiling. I was the strangest sensation. My parents thought I was going to die. Up to that point, I had been going to the medical clinic on the university campus… and they were completely useless. After this episode, my parents took me to their doctor who had me on the proper meds and on the mend within a couple days. I ended up having to cancel winter semester and taking an extended leave of absence from work so I could recover.
104 when I dragged my ass to high school with the flu two days in a row. I just took long cold showers and enough generic painkiller/fever reducer to knock it down to 102 and forced myself to go. At lunch break I took my temp and it was 104. I still went back the next day.
Yes, it was dumb. But my body can feel sick on weekend time rather than school time. I have a life to live, and the flu can just go bugger itself if it wants to interrupt that.
I’ve had temps of 104 three or four times. The last time was probably at least twenty years ago. I had pneumonia. I remember watching the baseball play-offs and the Montreal Expos were playing. I think maybe it was even snowing. I just remember that it looked so cool and people were singing The Happy Wanderer.
I was a high school teacher at the time and after a while the baseball game sort of morphed into a football game. When my husband came in from night classes, I was sitting up in bed singing our school’s fight song. Happy little fever dream…
You too? I watched butterflies playing football one time when I had a high fever. I found out later that the game was sponsored by Ford Monarch.