I had the strangest experience yesterday while at work-out of no where, I started to feel very achy(much more than usual) and chilled. I decided to take the anti-inflammatory I had skipped that morning, thinking I was just sore and cold. After a short while, I was so chilled, I began shaking and my entire body hurt so badly I considered going home for the day-something I almost NEVER do.
My ears started to ring, like when you feel like you're about to pass out or maybe vomit, so I quickly excused myself to the breakroom to sit down. I ended up taking my half hour lunch break, at which point I took some acetaminophen, since I knew at this point that I had a fever.
Within about an hour, I began to ache less, and the chills had begun to subside. The combination of the Rx NSAID and the acetaminophen finally began to overpower the fever and I felt I could tolerate the rest of the shift.
The mystery comes in because I had no other symptoms besides the fever...no cold symptoms, no nausea/vomiting/diarrhea...NOTHING. Just an acute onset fever that was finally controlled with medication, but I have no reason for why I experienced it!!
Has anyone else had strange, unexplained fevers? I still have no other symptoms today and the fever is either gone or controlled with the Rx diclofenac(anti-inflammatory like naproxen). I am beginning to wonder if I might have experienced this before if it were not for the medication that I take regularly except for yesterday when I tried to see how I felt without it.
Just wondering if anyone has some advice for me...
Thanks for reading this long, wordy post!!
Be well!
Jen