just last night i had the same thing. around 5pm yesterday afternoon i developed a fever of 103.1 and had chills so bad that my heater was up on full blast and I had two comferters on. i didnt eat for 12 hours and wasnt nauseated or anything. then at 2am my fever broke but i was still tired so i slept untill 2pm today and feel normal am actuall going to go out and get some lunch what the heck is it...

i had the exact same thing last night. one minute i am surfing the web, feeling great & healthy, the next minute i am shivering so bad that my teeth started to actually chatter. i felt like i was in the antarctica in January. i immed. put on flannel pajamas (tops & bottoms), threw an extra blanket on top of my comforter, and crawled into bed. i just kept shivering and shivering, i could not get warm, even wearing flannel PJs and under several layers of blankets. i have never felt this cold before in my entire life. i finally turned on a space heater and i felt a bit better. i couldnt sleep much, when i did it was in fits & starts, interrupted by pain, and shivering and teeth chattering. i didnt even sweat for the first 3 hours. when i drifted off for half an hour or so (after 3 hours of pure hellish suffering), i woke up bathed in sweat, so i turned off the space heater, but i was still cold. six hours later, i finally slept a few hours, woke up feeling PERFECTLY NORMAL. i was totally fine, like nothing had happenend. i was just a bit tired, but no soreness or anything. i had no other symptoms other than a fever. if i had to guess, my fever was at least in the range 103 or so. i have never experienced a fever of this intense magnitude. and it was JUST a fever, nothing else. NO coughing, NO sneezing, no runny nose, no vomiting, no diarrhea, no nausea, no sinus pain, no ear pain. nothing but a huge monster of a fever. very weird. but i am 100% fine now, just curious as to why this happened (and happy it was so short-lived). something like this has never happened to me before in my life. is this common? the extreme sudden-ness of the fever's onset was quite strange, and even stranger was the quick return to normalcy.

Yesterday afternoon I was feeling fine until around 5PM at which time I had a sudden onset of moderate fever accompanied by muscle and joint pain. No chills, nausea, cough or other symptoms. I would guess the fever to have been about 102 degrees mostly notable in the region of the forehead and ears. The joint/muscle pain was severe. I had difficulty turning my head due to neck pain and my lower back and hip regions were also strongly affected. Shoulders and limb pain were less noticable but present. Oddest part is that the fever subsided after about 8 hours leaving joint/muscle stiffness and soreness but no other apparent side effects. I was unable to fall asleep until sometime after 9AM and therefore I am tired due to lack of sleep but otherwise feel more-or-less normal. Any idea what this might be?

I had a very similar situation 2 days ago. Felt OK in the A.M. but started to feel 'off' in the afternoon. I thought it was from lack of sleep. Started to feel chilly and a bit achy. Left work an hour early and my skin felt tender, which it does when I have a temperature. Got home @ 4:30 with a temp of 100, chills very achy. The temperature gradually increased to 102 by about 8 P.M. Then it gradually started to drop and by 11 P.M. it was normal. The next day I felt perfectly normal but tired. This is the third time this has happened to me and I can't figure it out. There must be some kind of trigger but it totally eludes me.

What's going on here? Yesterday, about 5:00 PM, I suddenly starting with chills, felt feverish. I was feeling fine up to that point - the onset was acute. Then the muscle, joint, and general body aches started - I felt like crap. Still with feverish symptoms, I had a late supper (appetite fine), took 4 ibuprofen, and went to bed. By the morning I had 'sweated' out the fever, I'm a little tired now but the body aches are gone and I feel fine. What the heck is this? Will I develop other flu symtoms in a day or so?

Be interesting to know what region of the country all of these similar instances occurred in. I live in southeast Washington State. Anybody else?

justlikeswimming live in southeastern KY - I'm feeling much better today (though there's a lot of people sick where I work with flu-like symptoms more severe than my own)

Just yesterday I started to feel a little tired and my back and neck started aching, I just blew it off tel around five or so when I got this horrible fever, you could feel the heat off my skin through two or three layers of clothing. This was also accompanied by chills and horrible shaking.I was sent home from work three hours early. My fever persisted tel about nine or ten when it began to wear off some. My throat however got sore and I could barely talk. No fever today, although my body still aches and throat a little sore. I live in Eastern TN.

I have a theory - perhaps folks coming down with this brief fever are more resistant to the flu (most likely the swine flu if its a summer/early fall flu). I work at a school, so I've certainly been exposed, but I'm 50 years old and likely was exposed to swine flu during the 70s. Perhaps this prior exposure has enabled my body to rapidly fight off the swine flu??? What about everyone else - do you think you've been 'pre-exposed'?

I had fever and body aches that started last night around 7pm and this morning around 7am I felt fine. My 2 yr old had the very same thing this past wednesday and when I talked with the daycare apparently there was a lot of kids out that had the very same symptoms, and it all lasted about 12-18 hours. I live in Houston, Texas so I do not think this is a regional thing. I am 25 and have never been exposed to swine flu previously and my 2 yr old definitely hasn't. It is the strangest thing.

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I was fine until this past Tuesday 3pm, began to get the chills,while at work, I began feeling flushed, my temperature was going up, but I was piling on the sweaters...People were commenting that it was actually warm in the office, I experenced a fever that night, by 1pm the next day,Wednesday, I began to feel myself again, but continued to rest. Thursday, went back to work, feeling fine, except for the stiffness in my neck, and shoulder...funny, all five employees have also reported this rapid, short term fever, followed by stiffness in the neck and shoulder (on one side). Gotta wonder.

I think the same thing happened to my 2 yr old son,but its hard to tell since he can't tell me much detail - just the dramatic fever thing.... if I speak with his pediatrician I'll write back to let you all know what it might have been. What I wonder is if its contagious....sounds like it!

I think that it's the typical flu season. Although, just yesturday on Global TV Vancouver news, they were stating that if you have the flu, its the HINI. However, my friend, she came down with the fever, coughing, body aches, headache yesturday. She went to the Dr. today, he stated its just a virus and not the HIN1. The Dr. was stating that with the H1N1 virus, your skin hurts. So it would seem that the news is unimformed and is adversily heightening fear in the public...I would presume to heighten its ratings.

I've had 3 episodes of this 12-hour fever in the last 4 weeks and noticed that the last two times happened after eating sweet potatoes. Could this be a food-borne illness?

I'm onto my 2nd episode ;o( in the past 2 weeks, this time, high fever with congestion. I'm going back to bed.