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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PS: Totally agree with the travel clinic recommendation, unless you can't get in as a timely manner. That's your best bet for appropriate care in this circumstance.[/quote]

Op here. I called travel clinic's, urgent care and the health department. Everyone said to go to the ER. A doctor did show up a few minutes after I posted this. The doctor said they're admitting me to stay tonight. I hope I don't have anything serious. I have had a fever, chills, sweating and headaches for 6 days now. I hope it's only the flu but it's better to be safe. I am in a new city without a regular doctor. It hasn't been easy to figure care out. [/quote]

Something doesn't add up.

You called a travel clinic.  They told you to go to the ER.  So instead, you called an urgent care facility.  They told you to go to the ER.  So instead of going, you called the health department?  I'm sensing a pattern that you don't take instructions well.

You've had a fever for 6 days with chills, headache and sweating and you think it's life threatening because what?

You don't think a nurse can help diagnose what you have because why?

OP, you're obviously a youngster and you have a fever.  A regular ol fever.  I hate to break it to you but it's not life threatening and you will live to see another day.

Go eat some ice cream, calm down and you'll be better in a few days.

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What is wrong with you pp? She has been to Asia recently. A fever is considered malaria until proven otherwise. [/quote]

This is the PP who questioned OP.  I'll bite on your response.

So, apparently she contracted a fever in a foreign country (India) prior to arriving back home in the states.  Yet when directed by 3 different medical establishments to go to the ER she still waits 6 days before she decides to go to the ER?  Then she complains about not having a doctor at her beck and call because she has a life threatening disease?

She sounds like a narcissistic alarmist.  Even if it is malaria, which I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that it's not, it's not always fatal.  According to the CDC, it is sometimes fatal.

Don't wait 6 days before going to the ER, ignoring sound health advice from 3 different medical professionals, and cry life threatening disease when you arrive at the ER.  Not a good look.  [/quote]

Um what. Where did op say she contacted 3 medical professionals on the day she got a fever? You're making up stuff now.[/quote]

Um, read OP's response:

Op posted a few days ago for advice. Where in here do you see that she contacted 3 medical professionals 6 days ago. Why don't you find something better to do then shit on a sick person pp? You're truly sick minded seriously. [/quote]

You're right, I should find something better to do but so should you and so should OP.

I disagree with your assessment but that is what these boards are here for -- but let's be civil about it.

The OP has a fever.  She will live.  [/quote]
Why so nasty? Is something lacking in your life?[/quote]

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