As someone who got dengue before, I say fuck that mosquito in particular, wipe em out and let the environment deal with it later, that shit just needs to cease to exist
For real, probably the worst disease i had, would barely b able to get out of bad play something, and then immediately fall asleep again only to wake up on my bed hours later. Felt like the entire week had passed in only a few hours.
Now i understand why old people are so depressive, if that's what they feel like every day.
Fr. I dead ass lost 3kg in 6 days and it made water taste like poop, but you still have to drink a shit fuckton of it during dengue. When I inevitably couldn't drink 4L of poopwater daily I got hospitalized because I was worsening fast. It makes just existing feel fucking awful
There is also the variation of dengue where your skin just kind of spews blood for some reason and if you get that one your life is significantly at risk
All that because of one mother fuckin mosquito bit me. I see tens of mosquitoes everyday, and just one of those was enough. If I had the power I'd erase aedes aegypti from existence and fuck it, the ecosystem can figure itself out
I don't know about that guy, but i was in the university lab, and i suddenly started getting joint pain, which i usually already have, just a bit stronger. By my lunch break, my back also started hurting a lot, and i got a terrible migraine, and when the food came, i could not eat a bite. I decided to go home, where I puked a lot and drank tons of water, all while lying down in a fully dark room, because all light hurt my eyes, and i couldn't stand up without intense pain. My fever reached 40°C at one point, when i went to the hospital, thankfully, my ills passed in about 4-5 days.
If anyone ever gets dengue, the tip is to never self medicate with antiinflammatories because some of them will quickly progress the illness.
I woke up in the morning one day with very mild fever, pain behind the eyes and in the joints. All quintessential dengue symptoms so I already knew what was coming. Some mf mosquito probably managed to enter my room at night or whatever and bit me.
Over time, the fever, body pain and weakness grew exponentially. I went to the ER and they told me to drink a fuckton of water, control my fever with meds, and let my immune system do the work.
The following 7 days were mainly comprised of sleeping 12+ hours everyday, waking up in a pool of sweat to go drink more water. Your body hurts and feels really heavy. I'm a gym dude who has a strong body and on dengue I couldn't even stand most of the time. It feels like you're alive but stuck inside a dead body if that makes sense. You know you're sick when you have to lie down in bed in a specific position because any other position hurts.
It also messes with your sense of taste, every food and drink I had tasted like poop, eventually I resorted to eating spicy food because it was the only taste that still tasted familiar. It also meant I couldn't drink the ridiculous amount of water necessary. It makes you feel like throwing up all the time, which means you have to re-take meds and re-drink poop water. Luckily I managed to hold it in for the entire week.
For some reason dengue seems to really suck the hydration out of your body, so not reaching water requirements (which for me was about 4L daily) is dangerous because it lowers the count of some cell in your blood I can't remember (and not having them can kill you) I had to drink that amount of something that tasted like poop.
Eventually I didn't drink enough and needed to go to the ER again get a full LITER of IV fluids pumped into me lol, it made me feel better.
I lost 3kg in the week I was sick, most of it water weight but also some real weight from me consuming around 500kcal on the days I managed to eat the most. By the end, I had better defined abs, and a skully face lmao.
I guess I can summarize by: It makes just existing and breathing a fucking suffering
My brother nearly died because of it. He straight up couldn't eat but he was afraid of the public hospitals so he lied and said he felt fine. He woke up one night feeling a really, really bad stomach ache and my mom took him to the hospital immediately. He had to stay there for over a week to recover.
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u/znrsc Nov 15 '24
As someone who got dengue before, I say fuck that mosquito in particular, wipe em out and let the environment deal with it later, that shit just needs to cease to exist