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What are the symptoms?? I am suffering swollen glands, ear ache, and loss of balance.. sometimes headache... no temp as such but want to sleep 24/7..

I had mumps when I was a kid so I didn't think I would be able to get it again.. ooo woo is me.. feeling v sorry for myself.. ooo and I'm allergic to doctors...

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Try the NHS direct website they have an online symptom sorter which will tell you what you have - and I think they will send you straight to the GP. It sounds like an inner ear infection which can be extremely unpleasant and dangerous as it can spread into the old grey matter, and unlike Old Malt can have nasty and possibly permanent effects!

I Had it a few years ago - symptoms same as yours. Medics said the brain was not affected my case, although SWMBO definitely disagrees and says it explains a lot!

But my symapthy if that's what it is - its downright nasty, and may get a lot worse left untreated.

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Under my chin.. !!! sorry to dissapoint! ;)

Do I need to fly the Quarentine Flag.. Which I believe is Whisky.. which would of course be medicinal :)

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What are the usual symptoms of mumps?

Swelling and pain of one or both parotid glands are the usual main symptoms. (The parotid glands are the main salivary glands. They are just below the ears and you cannot normally see or feel them. The salivary glands make saliva which drains into the mouth.)
The mouth may feel dry. Chewing and swallowing may be sore.
Fever (temperature), headache, feeling tired and being off food may develop for a few days.
Mild abdominal (tummy) pain may occur.
The swelling of the parotid glands usually lasts 4-8 days. Mumps is normally a mild illness, but complications sometimes occur. This is why immunisation is important.

There may be no symptoms, or only very minor ones. It is thought that about 3 in 10 people who contract the mumps virus have no symptoms. Rarely, complications alone occur without the usual symptoms occurring first.

The immune system makes antibodies during the infection. These fight off the virus and then provide lifelong immunity. It is therefore very rare to have more than one episode of mumps.



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Re: hepatitis?

there are two kinds, one that is vair bad, the other that is the "kisser's disease" i think hepB which you mite have cos I had it after (i think) licking my fingers from inside a greenhouse. You want to sleep loads, and hawill have swollen glands. Or was it glandular fever as well? Anyway, go to a doctor.

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Goodness gracious great ***** of fire

Mumps in post-adoloscent males can cause painful swelling of the gonadical spheres. To the extent that parts of you might qualify for a guest appearance in a pornoflick.

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Re: Goodness gracious great ***** of fire

many thanks but I'm not a post adolescent male... thankfully if your description is to believed!

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Quarantine Flag is yellow therefore the label from a bottle of Jura or Wolf Blass wine will do nicely.
Hope you feel better soon - does this mean you have a double chin just now?

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then you're probably just pissed!

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Re: Feeling better today? nm

Yes..

Whatever it was seems to be on the retreat..

Regarding various questions..

No I do not have a double chin.. <Ohdrat looks v offended as having a double chin is a bit like saying that women sweat.... only a lot worse!>

Re infecting the board with my virus Irreverantsueus (I discovered it therefore I hav the right to name it) it doesn't appear to have a destructive payload unless you are a post adolescent male...

No I do not look like chipmunk... or any kind of munk at all for that matter.. tho' I could be described as being a chip off various old blocks..

Many thanks for your concern and I hope you are all in rude health ;) <Ohdrat toasts the forum with a liberal measure of the amber nectar>

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A Brief History of Mumps
Mumps began life in the mid 60's at the Massachusetts General Hospital as a general purpose programming language designed for medical applications. As originally conceived, it stood out from other mini-computer based languages of the late 1960's by providing:
1) an easily manipulated tree structured data base that was well suited to representing medical records;
2) flexible string handling support; and
3) multiple concurrent tasks in limited memory environments on very small machines. Syntactically, Mumps has many similarities to early versions of Basic.

In the 70's and early 80's a large biomedical user community became established around a diversified installed application software base . Many competing implementations of the language were available and both ANSI and DOD language standards were approved. Some examples of Mumps based comprehensive medical records systems are Harvard Community Health Plan's COSTAR System (Computer Stored Ambulatory Medical Record), which employed well over a thousand tightly coupled and encapsulated separate Mumps code modules, and the Veterans Administration Distributed Hospital Computer Program (DHCP).

The multi-dimensional built-in Mumps data base facility, known as global arrays, allows direct manipulation of tree or matrix structured data of effectively unlimited size and provided fast, efficient, direct, string-indexed access to any value stored at any node of the tree. Global arrays appear in source code as though they were an ordinary array references except that the array name is preceded by the circumflex character (^) to distinguish it from ordinary, local arrays. String valued subscripts are permitted. A global array can appear anywhere an ordinary array reference can appear, including to the left of an assignment operator. Successive indices in a global array reference represent a path through the data base tree.

In the late 90's the number of independent Mumps vendors declined significantly with most being bought by one company, Intersystems. At about the same time, the Mumps Users' Group, now defunct, decided to change the name of the language to "M" although most people still refer to it as Mumps. Intersystems presently controls most of the Mumps language market and they have, in the past few years, begun to make substantial, changes to their language product. At present, Intersystems mainly refers to their product as Cache'. A few other vendors exist but they do not appear to be doing significant commercial business. There have been several other versions available on the internet, some of which are freely distributed but proprietary, others are open source. Some of the open source are completely GPL'ed, which makes it impossible to create proprietary derivative works as a work that is derivative of a GPL work becomes itself covered by the GPL.


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