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Originally Posted by TheNewMrs.  That's amazing that you had any idea! I don't think I would have had a clue. |
I came on SO quickly, that it was the first think I thought of.
One minute I'm sitting watching Oprah feeling perfectly fine. About 15 minutes into the show, i'm chilly so I grab a blanket...about 10 minutes later, I'm shivering and my temperature is about 100 (I'm typically at 97.something).
A few minutes later, I'm VIOLENTLY shivering, and my temp is 101...then 102...then 103...
At that point I called a friend and asked her to take me to emergency (Oprah was still on at that point...that's how quickly I got sick). By the time I got to the ER, my temp was 104, and I was
really weak.
The only thing I could think of was TSS.
When they released me from the ER, I couldn't even walk, and had to literally crawl on my hands and knees up the stairs to my apartment.
The worst part of TSS isn't the initial 'attack' (although the initial attack is beyond awful)...it's the days after (every muscle in my body hurt to the point that I would cry just to even think about moving...all of my taste buds fell off...my skin looked parched in patches...and over then next 6 weeks all of the skin on my hands peeled off to where I had no fingerprints left (until the skin grew back).
Like I said: TSS is AWFUL.