106 or thereabouts. I had some weird fluey -make your lungs hurt- dealio going on. I remember I had some weird hallucinations. I was about 21. I asked my dad to get me some Tylenol or something and he told me to get up and get it myself. :rolleyes:
Highest fever - 100.1 during a simultaneous episode of a cold, the flu, pneumonia, and strep throat. My normal body temperature is around 95.5.
Highest internal temperature - I imagine it was after a 3-mile cross-country race in 100+ degree weather. One of my teammates said he saw steam pouring off my head when the coach poured water on it. Of course, he could’ve been suffering from heat hallucinations as well. Then, we had to face a 30-mile bus ride home without open windows. I demanded that we stop by the public pool rather than going straight back to the school.
- Scarlet Fever when I was a kid.
- Caught malaria in India, takes two weeks for it to make you sick - right when school started.
Was sick as a dog for two weeks, ‘cause no white doctor knew how to test for malaria and had no idea what it was. Finally found a good ol’ *desi * doctor to give me quinine.
Ugh, 104. I had a bad case of the flu when I was 22. That’s the highest temp I ever had as an adult. It hurt to breathe, yuck. Never had a fever that high again since, thank God.
During the winter of 2000, I developed a very severe infection (almost went septic) due to my ignoring an equally severe injury; I had fevers in the 104.someodd-range for a month, straight. I never hallucinated, but about a third of my hair fell out.
Yes, it eventually grew back.
My friend had scarlet fever like 5 years ago.
I belive that my highest temp. was 104 when I had the flu. It freaked me out, but I was soon distracted by hurling.
103, when I was in high school. God, it was horrible. I remember laying on a mat watching TV and crying while my mother kept applying cold washcloths to my body. I remember my muscles ached like I’d never felt before.
I tried a cold shower the next day and ended up collapsing. Nothing says embarrassing like being a 16 year old girl lying naked on the bathroom floor having to call for her stepfather (who she couldn’t stand at the time) to come help her.
Hey, we have a winner for the only other person I know who has had a 108!!!
When I get a fever, its always high (the times I get a temp. taken, it’s alway at least 104, if not 105 or 106.) Needless to say, I hallucinate quite a bit when I get a fever. it’s kinda fun, until I want to go to sleep but my imaginary friends won’t stop talking to me…jerks…
The 108 I got my freshman year in college. I was just walking around the dorm with a blanket on my shivering (cause I sweat like a mofo when I have a fever, so I always have to alternate between being half naked and being under five layers.) One of the girls had a thermometer, so she jsut took my temp, mostly for the fun of it (she was excited she finally got to use it!) When it was revealed I was at 108, everyone was wondering why I wasn’t dead.
And yes, although a fever is the body’s way to kill foreign invaders, if it gets too high it’s bad, cause if I remember right, proteins in the human body start to denature at 107 or 108.
So, how high can a fever go without the person dying? I always thought if you were in the 106 range you were knock knock knockin’ on heaven’s door.
Draelin, Gravity, lemme into your scarlet fever club. In fact, I just got over it a few weeks ago (I’m currently in high school.)
At any rate I had for some 2 days a temp of 103/104. Definitely the worst experience of my life.
Not to mention that I’d say I have scarlet fever and my friends would say “didn’t that end in the 1800s?”
~S&S
Upper 105s; I got pneumonia when I was seven and was hospitalized for 86 years (I don’t remember exactly, but it seemed like a really long time). I missed about half of first grade but after I was released from the hospital, my teacher was kind enough to come to my house everyday after school and talk about what the class learned that day. She brought homework to me, as well as tests, and I passed anyway. I was also unable to go outside most of the winter ( ) and only if I had a cloth to hold over my nose/mouth.
I’m pissed now though. I don’t remember having any hallucinations! 
Wow. You guys have had some really high fevers.
Let’s see…I’ve had:
Strep and ear infections more times than I can count, chicken pox, many flu like viruses (but never a real flu), many really bad colds, one severe sinus infection, one severe kidney/bladder/UT infection, severe dehydration and many many stomach viruses. I’ve also had many combo illnesses - strep and ear infection, strep and stomach virus, ear infection and flu type thingie…
Despite all that, my highest fever ever was 103 and that was when I fractured my skull. I don’t even know why I had a fever.
Other than that, my temp never goes above 101.5 and even that’s rare. If I hit 99.5, it usually means it’s time to call in sick to work.
40-and-a-bit C. I think that’s around 104-and-a-bit F. It lasted around nine days. Apart from the effects of the fever itself (feeling seedy, very tired, headachy from dehydration, and the hallucinations) I had no symptoms.
It was a couple years ago. I was feeling pretty seedy and could barely get out of bed. I remember waking up one night, hallucinating. In my hallucination, there were trumpets and choirs and guitars and things, and I recall thinking I should write down all this cool music because it would be a number one hit! Then I realised I couldn’t move. Not that it mattered anyway, because the last time I actually wrote music was about 16 years ago. I really don’t understand how my conscious mind interrupted the hallucination to remind my hallucinating self that I didn’t know how to write music anymore.
Anyway. I finally went to the only doctor in this area that bulk bills (I was unemployed at the time). See, I hate doctors, but this fever wasn’t going away anytime soon. Anyhow… the moment I told him I’d had such a high fever for so long, he pushed himself as far away from me as he could. He conducted half the interview from the other side of the room. Way to make me feel better, doc! :rolleyes:
After that he continually asked me if it hurt when I urinated. I repeatedly told him no. I don’t think he believed me, and it irked me that he kept asking. Doc, I know what a UTI feels like. Really, I do! Finally he told me there was nothing he could do and told me to take Neurofen or Panadol.
Gah, it was bloody awful!
Max.
I had scarlet fever when I was 5. My temp got up to 106; I don’t remember a whole lot. I do remember my mom putting me in a tub of cold water and my dad dumping ice trays into the bath water. They put a cold wet towel around my head and shoulders, to help bring the temp down so they could get me to the hospital.
Mom told me later that I was having convulsions and stuff.
106 a few months ago with a 24-hour flu-type thing. Didn’t help that I stupidly decided to paint a bedroom with this fever, with sweat pouring off me in buckets, though the physical activity may have pushed my temperature up somewhat. Took my temp, got a shock, then went to bed and hallucinated skulls coming out of the wall. I was right as rain the next day.
Well, one thing to keep in mind is that young children can withstand high fevers much better than can adults (I don’t know why). But the trick, even with an adult with a high fever, is to pull it down quickly, without trauma. My doctor did tell me that if I’d stayed home and slept for six more hours, with the infection I had, that I would have been doing more than knocking on Heaven’s door: I’d have been having tea with St. Peter!
What I’m trying to say is that I don’t know how high a fever would have to be to just instantly kill you, but the body can withstand some pretty frightening temps for relatively short periods of time.
Huh. I’ve never met anyone besides me who’s had scarlet fever, and here’s like ten people in one thread.
Scarlet Fever Survivors of the Dope Unite!! 