Your Highest Temperature?

[wyq614]

I got a cold yesterday (fortunately not H1N1) and had a light fever (37.2 C/99 F), and today I feel a little better. But one of my roommates got as high as 38.9/102.2, he said to me that that broke his record of temperature, that he's never got that high temperature before. I wonder what's the record high temperature that you have had.

So far my extreme highest temperature is 39.5/103.1 in the year of 2002.

[vbhoutex]

103.7f

[HURAKAN]

I think one time I got a fever of 39.9ºC / 103.8ºF. NOT GOOD!!

[arkess7]

I had 102 about 14 years ago at the age of 23 I got chicken pox! I never got them as a kid..I was working with kids then so I guess thats how I got it at such a late age.....Now a days my daughter got a chicken pox vaccine shot when she was a baby...she's now 9....and no pox!

[Stephanie]

I really can't remember, but I believe I've had a fever of over 103 degrees a few times due to strep throat, tonsilitis, flu. I know that there were a few times when I was shivering so bad that I couldn't get enough blankets on me. One time, when I had a bad case of strep throat during the winter, I ran from my car, got into my home and ran for cover on my bed with my coat STILL ON and pulled up all of the blankets over me. I was shivering that bad.

[southerngale]

I don't remember either, but it's been pretty high. The worst that I can recall was when I was in college... I got really sick and went to the campus health center. They had me wrapped in blankets and I was pretty out of it. I don't remember what it was, just that it was very high.

I had 102 just yesterday. I started feeling bad on Friday and it got worse as the day went on... spent all day yesterday in bed. I woke up better today, with a slight fever, but still not feeling well. And I had 103 in early October when I was sick with the flu for several days. Before that, it had been years since I had been that sick. High fever 2 months in a row though... geesh. That's very unusual.

[HurricaneBill]

The highest that I'm aware of was Christmas 1990 when I got the flu. It was at least 102.0 F/ 38.8 C.

However, when I had the chicken pox, my mom said it was higher.

The highest body temperature recorded in a person who survived happened in July 1980 in Georgia. (During the deadly 1980 heat wave in the U.S.)

Willie Jones, 52, was admitted to a hospital suffering from heat stroke. His body temperature was 115.7 F/ 46.5 C! He spent 24 days in the hospital.

[Frank2]

Don't ask me how I can recall this, but as a child one time was proudly telling my brothers and sisters, "I have 400!" after my Mom took my temp - apprarently either I was delirious from fever or was too young and didn't know what I was talking about (probably both)...

In those days (50 years ago - sounds better than saying half a century ago) it was still common practice to use the "blue" thermometer (ouch) for children under 7 or 8, since therometers at that time were still made of glass and mercury, and it was too risky to take an oral reading...

LOL

As far as all-time high temps - in 1978 I was stung by a scorpion while camping in Southwest Florida, and about 5 hours later developed a nervous system reaction and a temperature of somewhere between 104 and 105 - which caused me to sweat away about one gallon of fluid (from what I learned, that is common with certain types of scorpion stings).

Years later, I found that my symptoms were the same as young Brian in Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman, when he was stung by a scorpion and Dr. Mike had to save his life - a scorpion sting is almost as much "fun" as a snake bite - always wear shoes (or flip-flops) when walking on sand or soil and wear thick gloves if you need to dig into soil or sand with your hands, especially if you live in the southeast or southwest...

In January, 1989 I contracted the Norovirus (a/k/a "Cruise Ship" viruis) while a hospital volunteer, and that gave me a 6-hour fever of 102 or so (but it was the dehydration that put me on an IV and in the hospital overnight)...

And in December, 2003, I had a seasonal flu virus that gave me a temp of 103.4 for about 18-24 hours - even with 1000 mg of Tylenol (Acetaminophen) every 3 1/2 to 4 hours, and as the nurses always told me during my days as an ER volunteer, Tylenol will reduce a fever by about 1 degree, so, my actual temp was about 104.5, and it was so high that my lips and the bottom of my feet began to have heat blisters...

Uh, that's it - so far...

Frank

P.S. Still, my fevers weren't as bad as some of the kids that came into the ER with temps that sounded more like FM radio stations - the highest two that I did see were one child with a reading of about 107 and another with a reading of 106.7 - both were brought into the trauma room and were immediately stripped of all clothing, soaked with cold towels and given a tylenol suppository, since that works the fastest in children (if a fever is higher than 104, it is very important to REMOVE blankets and clothing, since the opposite will only increase the person's body temperature) - thankfully both patients survived that critical experience, though others during my time there did end up with fevers so high that they experienced febrile seizures which can be deadly...

[Stephanie]

I don't remember either, but it's been pretty high. The worst that I can recall was when I was in college... I got really sick and went to the campus health center. They had me wrapped in blankets and I was pretty out of it. I don't remember what it was, just that it was very high.

I had 102 just yesterday. I started feeling bad on Friday and it got worse as the day went on... spent all day yesterday in bed. I woke up better today, with a slight fever, but still not feeling well. And I had 103 in early October when I was sick with the flu for several days. Before that, it had been years since I had been that sick. High fever 2 months in a row though... geesh. That's very unusual.

I can't remember - did you go to the doctor in October the last time you were sick?

[AnnularCane]

The highest I can remember was 104 back in 1983. Now I usually get low-grade fevers, although in 2003 I had some kind of flu or something, and had a temp of 103 at one point. Oddly I wasn't affected that much, except for feeling really hot.

Apparently Tylenol works really well on me, because I took it when I had that 103 degree fever, and my temperature dropped like a rock all the way down to normal (temporarily anyway).

[southerngale]

I don't remember either, but it's been pretty high. The worst that I can recall was when I was in college... I got really sick and went to the campus health center. They had me wrapped in blankets and I was pretty out of it. I don't remember what it was, just that it was very high.

I had 102 just yesterday. I started feeling bad on Friday and it got worse as the day went on... spent all day yesterday in bed. I woke up better today, with a slight fever, but still not feeling well. And I had 103 in early October when I was sick with the flu for several days. Before that, it had been years since I had been that sick. High fever 2 months in a row though... geesh. That's very unusual.

I can't remember - did you go to the doctor in October the last time you were sick?

No. I probably should have, but I was too sick to even think about getting there. Yeah, I see the irony.

[brunota2003]

I remember one time I had the flu and had a temp of about 100 (my body temp runs on the high side normally, around 99.0) and I went outside and ran around and jumped on the trampoline a bunch...came back in and checked my temp...the thermometer read 109 for a couple minutes before it dropped back down to around 100. Whether that was an error or not? I dunno...but yeah.

[AnnularCane]

I remember one time I had the flu and had a temp of about 100 (my body temp runs on the high side normally, around 99.0) and I went outside and ran around and jumped on the trampoline a bunch...came back in and checked my temp...the thermometer read 109 for a couple minutes before it dropped back down to around 100. Whether that was an error or not? I dunno...but yeah.

Wow, that must have freaked you out.

Last New Year's I had a cold with probably a low-grade fever (I never actually took my temperature, but I just felt a bit feverish), and when I went to bed that night I put the bedspread over me and shortly after that, I suddenly felt really hot and my congestion dried up, like I had a high fever. I immediately took the bedspread off of me and the sensation went away shortly afterward, but it was weird. I know I probably shouldn't have put the bedspread over me when I was already feverish, but I didn't think it would affect me that much.

[O Town]

Heck I can't remember but I know while sick this past July it was 102.
My kids now I can remember, my daughters was up to 103 when she had meningitis
at age 5. I was freaked out when it stayed that way most of the day. They say its "healthy"
to have a fever it just means your body is fighting infection and as long as there are
no other side effects of the fever, headache, ect. you shouldn't take anything
to bring it down. Just let your body do what its supposed to do. But once it hits
104 and above I know you can have fever seizures, that has to be horrifying to watch as a parent.

[azskyman]

I've had a 117F. I think that is about 44.2C. Been here 12 years. It's been warmer than that downtown Phoenix, though.

[RL3AO]

I've had a 117F. I think that is about 44.2C. Been here 12 years. It's been warmer than that downtown Phoenix, though.

They meant your highest body temp. You'd be dead before you hit 117.

[Forestgump11]

My doctor recently told me i had 118 or maybe i heard 108. The doctor put the temperature mearsuring device in my ear and when she told me 118 i freaked out. i think its because of my braces too ive had pain throught out a whole week dealing with the pain.

[vbhoutex]

My doctor recently told me i had 118 or maybe i heard 108. The doctor put the temperature mearsuring device in my ear and when she told me 118 i freaked out. i think its because of my braces too ive had pain throught out a whole week dealing with the pain.

Either way you would be either dead or severely brain damaged. If it was 118 you are now dead. If it was 108 and wasn't immediately controlled you would be brain damaged.

[streetsoldier]

Mine was 103.6 back in 1977, when I contracted a staph B infection...it took me another four months to stabilize at normal (kept rising and lowering from 98.6, w/o explanation from the MDs).