Dengue Fever
Last week, I started feeling a little weak, it was getting harder and harder to get up early for surfing every morning, I had muscle and joint soreness and it felt like I had water in my ears all the time. It was throwing off my equilibrium, making be feel dizzy and all I really wanted to do was lay around an relax. It was not accompanied by anything else associated with being sick (vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, etc) For me, sitting around is a hard thing to do…even when I am exhausted, I do what needs to get done or my mind starts running through the list of things that need to get done like ticker tape and it ruins my relaxing moments.
Well, by Friday morning I realized that my body was going into shut-down mode. I was completely exhausted, was really achy, had a constant headache and felt dizzy. It was enough to retire to the couch and bed for the entire weekend. I didn’t sleep much more than normal on Saturday, just didn’t feel like moving. I drank tons of water/juice and watched movie after movie (Assassination of Jessee James, Two Days in the Valley, Death Sentence, He Was a Quiet Man) and read a junk food novel by John Grisham called “The Testament.”
Without ruining the book, one of the characters in The Testament got Dengue Fever while in South America…and it got me thinking. Hmmm…..symptoms of Dengue Fever; Headache, Joint Aches, Muscle Aches, Nausea, Swollen lymph nodes, Rash and vomiting. Dengue Fever is a disease similar to malaria as it is carried and transmitted by mosquitoes (Aedes Aegypti Mosquito: Only feed during the day) and it can be found in the tropics or tropical climates.
Instead of panicking or even caring at all (I am very melancholy when I am sick), I slept for about 18 hours yesterday. I woke up when Summer came to bed at about 1:30am and had a little trouble going back to sleep but woke up again this morning around 7:00am feeling pretty good. We’ll see how it goes today, hopefully I am on the road to recovery!
March 17th, 2008 at 7:39 am
[...] just finished reading how Stefan thinks he might have caught Dengue. I understand his view on doctors and being sick. Whenever I get sick, I am usually the same. I [...]
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March 17th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Dengue fever is very common in Puerto Rico. It is usually not life treatning; any doctor will send you to a lab to check your platelet count. It is the safest way to check if you have the hemorragic kind.
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March 18th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Hey you should def get checked for Dengue. The Dr. will take some blood & test it. If you have it they will give you medicine to treat it.
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March 18th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
r u feeling better?
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March 19th, 2008 at 4:09 am
I am feeling much better…now ms. summer has something…so she was in bed all day yesterday.
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March 21st, 2008 at 9:40 am
oh…my baby!
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October 8th, 2009 at 7:39 am
I was in Puerto Rico 10Sept by the 18Sept. I had the following symptoms: Chills, Fever, I thought an ear infection (same water in the ear feeling), constant headache (but no sinus drainage or stuffy nose), my lymph nodes were swollen, my neck ached, my back hurt, I got so dizzy when I stood up, vomiting, nausea, I am exhausted!
I went to the doctor. He said the headache was a miagraine (I have never had a miagraine), and gave me medicine (that I didn’t take). He gave me medicine to stop vomiting (I wasn’t throwing up enough to take it). He gave me sinus medicine (I didn’t take because I didn’t have sinus pressure etc.) He gave me a muscle relaxer for my neck pain and a fever reducer (I did take the fever reducer).
A week later I went back to the doctor and demanded some antibiotics I was soooooooo sick. He finally gave me Azithromycin 5 day course. I helped some, but my fever is comming back.
What medicine treats Dengue Fever? I hate to go back to the doctor just to snatch his candy/medicine writing pad and demand he do a blood test.
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October 21st, 2009 at 10:13 am
Mercedes – Yes, that sounds like you got Dengue Fever. The symptoms with eventually go away, but it’s one of those things that remains in your body and can recur.
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