NOW IT’S DOWN TO 98.5. CRISIS AVERTED. COVID TEST NOT TAKEN.
That’s weird. Glad it didn’t linger. My temp is usually 97.9 so 99.1 feels high to me, although it’s technically not a fever.
GTFO. 99.1 is slightly elevated.
oh i see
But, I mean, I tested myself a week or so back with just mild congestion. Home tests are cheap and easy, it doesn’t hurt
I wasn’t actually serious about testing myself with a slightly elevated temperature. I see that is the norm here though. oh well.
I assume it was elevated because I was rushing to my appointment in the heat.
Didn’t you guys hear the debate over Bidens non fever 99.4 reading last week after which he took some Tylenol that may have been for that or some discomfort?
If my temperature hits 99.1, I’m sick. I tend to run cool, and that’s high for me. Yeah, I’d take a covid test because i get them for free and have a stack in the bathroom. I wouldn’t expect it to be positive, but i wouldn’t visit anyone who’s immunocompromised if my temp was above 99F.
In the before days, i would have worked from home, and not gone to the office with a temp of 99.1.
Your typical temp may be higher than mine.
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I sometimes run as hot as 99ish naturally. Anything much above that and I’m sick.
I wouldn’t have known my temperature if not for it being taken at the doctor’s office. It must have been viewed as a nothing burger by them because they didn’t actually tell me about it. It was on my after visit summary online.
Different people have slightly different normal temperatures. That’s normal for enough people that they aren’t going to get excited about it.
My average temp is low to mid 97’s, so yeah even 98.6 is borderline feverish for me.
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Exactly! It was always so frustrating to me to go the doctor after several weeks of sinus issues and be told I didn’t need antibiotics bc I didn’t have a fever bc 99.1 wasn’t a fever. And I’ve read articles that say the average temperature is now lower than 98.6 but most doctors haven’t adjusted for that.
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my temperature fluctuates. it’s 97.2 right now.
Also for a temperature to be meaningful to think you need a covid test you should actuality feel sick. A random temperature check at the doctors when i wasnt actuality there because im sick right now and felt just fine doesnt warrent a covid test.
Yeah, people are more sedentary than in the past and body temperatures have fallen. I have experienced the same frustration.
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It’s a signal. My relative who gave me Covid had no symptoms other than a very mild sore throat and a fever. Both lasted less than 24 hours although I’m not sure exactly how long.
That said, if your temperature was taken right after you’d walked a bunch of blocks in sweltering heat it might not have meant much. At some point probably last summer when I did NOT have Covid I was going to the dentist after waiting in my car for a while (because they were having you wait in your car rather than the waiting room) and I’d turned the car off, so no A/C. When they called me to go in my temp was too high for them to let me in, but they told me to wait in the air conditioned vestibule for a few minutes to cool down and they’d recheck my temp. It was fine in the recheck, although I don’t recall exactly how long they had me wait before rechecking.
Um i didn’t have a sore throat. This doesnt dispute what i said. A sore throat is feeling sick.
I wonder how many people just don’t get sick enough to test positive. Like if you’re all boosted and stuff maybe you can get infected but you just don’t cross that barrier.
I seem to be having intermittent mild fevers (mid 99’s, happened again last night) that aren’t Covid related (so far). Currently wondering if my decaying, impacted wisdom tooth that was supposed to come out 6+ years ago is trying to kill me.
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