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Just wondering if anyone here has had mumps as an adult?
I am 27 and have had it since Tuesday and god it's horrendous. I knew it involved swelling of the glands, but I didnt realise how painful it is. My glands are so swollen by bottow jaw has moved forward and my bottom teeth and now more forward than my front teeth. I also have fever and feel generally rubbish.
It was really weird, on Tuesday afternoon, whilst still at work, I literally felt my right gland 'pop' (that;s the best way to describe it, not literally and it wasn't painful but it was very strange) and it started from there.
Went to the docs Weds morning and he was reasonably young and suspected mumps but precribed me antibiotics in case it's just an infection, but 4 days on nothing has really changed. The doctor seemed very surprised I could have it and was saying it's so rare these days, they dont know an awful lot about it, but if it is mumps, he has to notify the authorities :eek:
Going back to docs tomorrow, although I know there is no cure and you have to wait til it gets better by itself. God knows who I caught it off.
As the MMR wasnt introduced until 1988, I wasnt vaccinated. Now I understand why children are vaccinated. It's horrible!
Anyone got any experiences of it? How long do you reckon I'll be off work for?
I am 27 and have had it since Tuesday and god it's horrendous. I knew it involved swelling of the glands, but I didnt realise how painful it is. My glands are so swollen by bottow jaw has moved forward and my bottom teeth and now more forward than my front teeth. I also have fever and feel generally rubbish.
It was really weird, on Tuesday afternoon, whilst still at work, I literally felt my right gland 'pop' (that;s the best way to describe it, not literally and it wasn't painful but it was very strange) and it started from there.
Went to the docs Weds morning and he was reasonably young and suspected mumps but precribed me antibiotics in case it's just an infection, but 4 days on nothing has really changed. The doctor seemed very surprised I could have it and was saying it's so rare these days, they dont know an awful lot about it, but if it is mumps, he has to notify the authorities :eek:
Going back to docs tomorrow, although I know there is no cure and you have to wait til it gets better by itself. God knows who I caught it off.
As the MMR wasnt introduced until 1988, I wasnt vaccinated. Now I understand why children are vaccinated. It's horrible!
Anyone got any experiences of it? How long do you reckon I'll be off work for?
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Female thankfully. I know it can be worse in males. Thankfully my husband had it as a boy
Before inoculation was available didn't people used to have "mumps parties" particularly for boys so that children did have it when they were young?
If I am honest, although the Doctor was really nice, he wasn't really 'up' on mumps and had to go onto the internet to look for symptoms (to which I had them all). He then said it's ether mumps or a gland infection and for me to take the antibiotics but if it doesnt help then to go back (which is what I am doing tomorrow). However he said the surgery would call me if they want to see me sooner (havent heard).
Why would he have to notify the authorities tho? What authorities? He didnt seem overly clued up on mumps at all which is a bit worrying. He said it's because the vaccincation has pretty much made it rare these days and doctors are no longer trained on it
The doctor said mumps and measles are making a comeback because some parents are not having their children immunised - but I made sure she got all the jabs she should've got when she was a baby.
She still got mumps though - typical
I think health authorities always have to be notified about infectious diseases.
It can make men infertile.
It was like having the flew to start and I passed it onto a mate, I didn't know I had it at that point.
The Dr recognised it straight away, before it was full blown, he told the authorities and recommended staying inside for a couple of days.
Apparently in care cases male genitals can swell up and in extreme cases cause infertility.
Oh right thank you. Thankfully our son has had the MMR- we had it done a bit late unfortunetly because I was so scared about all these stories about the MMR and he got measles
Would love to know who I picked it up from.
I think it's awful that when the media ran the scare stories about MMR they also failed to tell people what the consequences can be of not having the jabs.
Thanks. Never had measles so cant compare. But mumps is highly uncomfortable. Eating is the worse when the saliva glands get going - OWWWWW
I know. I was petrified that all these bad things were gonna happen loads of people were telling me about autism and everything then other people were telling me that it is best to get him vaccinated I just didn't know what to do it was terrible. But thankfully he is fully protected now. I still haven't had the MMR and I am 22 my parents didn't want me vaccinated because of these stupid stories going round about it. I am wondering now though whether to get vaccinated. Would it be too late?
I'm sorry you are feeling so bad.
I dont think it's not too late. I was reading on the internet the other night whilst trying to research this that some university's were offering it to students who missed out on the MMR as a baby. So therefore I am assuming that you should be able to request one from your doctor (not 100% sure)
My mum checked my vaccination record and it seems I had injections for rubella and measles, just not mumps.
Thanks
Thank you. I will phone the doctor tomorrow and see what they say. Thanks for replying to me
[There are some slight caveats to that, but we won't go there!]
Agreed. I just remember getting a leaflet about the new Meningitis vaccine (PCV7) and reading how two kids given as case studies had contracted the disease twice. You'd think they'd have immunity after the first lot, but they did not to devastating effect. I discussed this new vaccine with the nurse and decided not to get my son retrospectively vaccinated as my daughter (then aged 2) had never had it and was not offered it either. I had never worried about it with her and felt I was unlikely to worry about it with him. He'd already had all the other immunisations and I'd felt that was enough TBH. I'd prefer that they could have it now a bit older but that wasn't given to us as an option.
However I do think some people (and I include myself until I found out otherwise) think immunisations means they have full 100% protection and I think it should be stated that they do not.
Oh dear that sounds awful, much worse than me (and I thought I was bad!!). Bless him