I\'ve Got Mumps
 

I went to the doctor today thinking I had strep throat because my roomate has had it.

I told the doctor I believe I have strep throat. After about 4 seconds of examination, the doctor (at the university student health center) told me "you have mumps. You're actually the first patient I've personally treated this summer, but there have been a couple people per week". She then let me know there's nothing I can do other than feel like [censored] for up to 10 days.

She then gave me some surgeon masks to cover up my disease spreading mouth and nose. On the way out, I was able to stop at a desk with a sign that said "Mumps Patient Checkout," where I was entered into a database for the recent mumps outbreak.

You can usually tell if you have mumps if you look anything like this:

http://www.kcom.edu/faculty/chamberl...MAGE/MUMPS.GIF


My neck isn't too bad, but certainly noticeable. I have had the MMR vaccine twice in my life. I'm at my parent's house now in quarantine for a week. Currently, I have flu-like symptoms and a sore neck. Worse case, my testicles could swell. In very rare cases, men with mumps can become sterile, although it's usually with old people.

Anyway, my monitors are going next to my bed and I'll play poker all week.

For anyone who is in college, getting the vaccine again might not be a bad idea.

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Did you get it from kissing Millicent? And did you see sky rockets?

Re: I\'ve Got Mumps
 

Isn't the mumps vaccine in the tetnus shot? Mumps/rubella/tetnus?

Is the vaccine not effective? Or a new strain? Did the doctor expand on anything?

You look young for college, but type well for what must be little fingers. Get better soon.

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Did you get it from kissing Millicent? And did you see sky rockets?

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http://www.satellitenews.net/reporte...se/melissa.jpg

Hmmm, maybe.

Re: I\'ve Got Mumps
 

I had the Mumps in February. Like you I've been vaccinated twice.

Luckily I had an EXTREMELY mild case (slight headache, tender throat). This meant that 1) I didn't have to go to my crappy job for four days; and 2) I stayed on my butt and watched movies all day and played poker all evening.

If I could arrange to get the Mumps in that fashion once a year, I absolutely would.

P.S. I think that it was pretty cool to have an incredibly contagious disease prefaced by an article. Saying "I've got "THE Mumps"' beats the hell out of saying 'I've got indigestion'.

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Isn't the mumps vaccine in the tetnus shot? Mumps/rubella/tetnus?

Is the vaccine not effective? Or a new strain? Did the doctor expand on anything?

You look young for college, but type well for what must be little fingers. Get better soon.

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I believe Tetanus is separate. The MMR shot stands for Measles/Mumps/Rubella.

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Ahh, thank you on the MMR. Is tetnus DTP? diptheria/tetnus/polio?

Re: I\'ve Got Mumps
 

I guess some of us older guys were lucky and got it as a kid. The SOP then was if a neighbor kid got the mumps/measles/chickenpox, then your mom sent you and your brothers/sisters over to get infected as well and just get it over with.

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I had the Mumps in February. Like you I've been vaccinated twice.

Luckily I had an EXTREMELY mild case (slight headache, tender throat). This meant that 1) I didn't have to go to my crappy job for four days; and 2) I stayed on my butt and watched movies all day and played poker all evening.

If I could arrange to get the Mumps in that fashion once a year, I absolutely would.

P.S. I think that it was pretty cool to have an incredibly contagious disease prefaced by an article. Saying "I've got "THE Mumps"' beats the hell out of saying 'I've got indigestion'.

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Should I be worried, I've had a sore throat and a headache for 2 days, and I can't remember the last time I had a headache.

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and I can't remember the last time I had a headache.

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Excessive drinking causes both headaches and memory loss.