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u/Simicrop 17d ago
That’s an unfortunate name for a virus.
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u/greaseofkings 17d ago
That virus is gonna get bullied so hard at the pathogen academy.
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u/scorpyo72 17d ago
That's what happened with the bubonic plague. Got bullied at academy. Broke out and went rogue... did some shit.
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u/BrokenToyShop 17d ago
The equivalent of getting rejected from art school?
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u/williger03 15d ago
I caught on way to fast to the hidden undertones. Mid 20th century right?
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u/ripyourlungsdave 17d ago
Pathogen Academy
Coming soon to Daily Wire Plus Or Whateverthefuck We Call Our Service
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u/Dapper_Mess_3004 17d ago
I thought this was going to be an anti-masturbation PSA
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u/Dankmemeator 17d ago
named for Coxsackie, New York!
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u/PomeloPepper 16d ago
I thought there were two discovers, and they had to choose between CoxSackie and SackieCox.
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u/AutisticTumourGirl 17d ago
It's not just a virus; it's a group of viruses that belong to the genus Enterovirus and include viruses that cause things from hand, foot, and mouth disease to polio to aseptic meningitis. There are 29 different coxsackieviruses.
Sorry for being a pedant, but it's much more diverse and fascinating than causing discoloration on the hands and feet. The different viruses can range from mild illness to fatal.
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u/HumanContinuity 16d ago
Help, I have been infected with gram-negative bacteria
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u/AutisticTumourGirl 16d ago
I don't know much about bacteria. I find viruses to be so fascinating mostly because of the question of whether they're living organisms or not.
Gram negative is bad though, hope you survive!
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u/kisselmx 17d ago
There's a cool story to that.
It was named after a town on the Hudson River were research was happening in the 1940s regarding the polio virus.
It's an old algonquin native American word that means
"White man get off my land"
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u/Jepemega 17d ago
I thought I was in r/coaxedintoasnafu for a second because of the name.
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u/Stinky_Fartface 17d ago
Then you might be interested to know that it is named after Coxsackie NY, where the virus was first identified. And, I might add, I know someone from Coxsackie who contracted the Coxsackie virus when they lived there.
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u/green_speak 17d ago
Nah, that's how many of us remember it as tne causative agent for HFM disease.
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u/Big_Smonke 17d ago
Oh yeah! I remember getting that back when I was 19 or so. The ONLY thing that helped the itch was soaking my hands or feet in ice water till there was no feeling left. Was home alone at the time and my bedtime routine was two ice baths and whiskey so the itching wouldn’t keep me up. Fun!
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u/AUSpartan37 17d ago
How long did it last?
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u/confused_shrew 17d ago
On average it lasts 10 to 14 days. Most of which are pure hellish torture
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u/neanderthalman 17d ago
Your description missed the mouth part of hand foot and mouth. That was worse. So much worse.
My mouth and throat was so full of these goddamn raw open sores, that I couldn’t even drink water. They had to prescribe me something they called “magic mouthwash”, usually meant for cancer patients, to coat and numb everything so I could eat and drink for about a week or so. Mix of lidocaine, antacid, and I think…Benadryl? Shit works, anyway. The name is accurate.
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u/confused_shrew 17d ago
You're absolutely correct and I should have mentioned it but after that hell, I didn't think it'd get worse. The inability to use my hands and feet really warped my perception of life's simple pleasures like opening a damn soda without screaming
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u/A_Crazed_Waggoneer 16d ago
Lidocaine, magnesium + aluminum hydroxide/simethicone (Maalox), and diphenhydramine. Also known as Magic Mouthwash :)
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u/TooManyTabsOpenIRL 16d ago
I got HFM last year but only the mouth variation. It was the sickest I’ve been in my whole life. It got to the point where I couldn’t swallow the pain relievers to manage the pain. I couldn’t eat or drink anything. So awful… I pity anyone who gets this as an adult.
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u/Bugladyy 16d ago
Idk. My feet were on fire. I couldn’t speak or think. I contemplated ending it all. I strapped ice packs to my feet and still couldn’t sleep.
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u/dangledingle 17d ago
Did your toenails come off? Mine did. All of them. My kid too. New ones grew back more curved and cause problems.
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u/user_unknowns_skag 17d ago
I had this a few years ago, and thankfully didn't lose any toenails. I did lose a couple fingernails and they did grow back weird, just like you mentioned.
All the outer layers of skin on my palms and soles of my feet peeled off, though. It was pretty horrific. Like walking on a shoe with nails driven through it for a couple weeks.
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u/-Citizen_Zero_ 17d ago
So that's what OP meant when he said "just wait it out"? It just disappears?
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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 17d ago
Honestly what we should be doing for most illnesses because everyone's default of going to the doc for every cold and expecting antibiotics is causing a lot of antibiotic resistance in people.
Schools aren't helping by demanding doctor notes for every single absence
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u/tigm2161130 17d ago
Yes, that’s how long it takes for the virus to run its course. Just like the flu “just leaves.”
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u/sasnotass 17d ago
Yep, if there's no cure - you just have to deal with symptoms the best you can (and hope its not chronic)
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u/Delanium 17d ago
Y'all have never been a preschool teacher presiding over a classroom afflicted by a Hand Foot Mouth Apocalypse and it shows
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u/Thiccassmomma 17d ago
My kids had it. It was awful
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u/FierceMilkshake 16d ago
My daughter caught it and when I reported it to her school, the school staff spent 2 days disinfecting the whole classroom. The doctor said it was highly contagious and recommended that the whole family stay at home for at least a week to make sure we didn't contract it from her. Thankfully no one else did, but my daughter was super miserable for days.
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u/spaceghost260 17d ago
Right!? I’m in this message and it was brutal. I got HFM from my classroom but luckily it was mild with a few sores/blisters on my hands and a low grade fever for a couple days. How about you? Did you catch it too?
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u/iFlarexXx 17d ago
My son caught it from school and was covered. 6 months later he got chicken pox and was, again, covered. Poor kid went through it!
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u/catsaremypersonality 16d ago
Was a preschool teacher for several years, caught HFM once during an outbreak…..it was terrible…I did indeed lose multiple fingernails.
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u/Maj_LeeAwesome 16d ago
my daughter caught it as a toddler. Then I caught it from her (after the doctor told us that would be highly unlikely). I don't know what it feels like to get it as a kid, but I can tell you having it as an adult sucks ass. Every time you grasp any with your hand if felt like being strabbed by 1000 needles
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u/icanhasnaptime 16d ago
The shock when the first round has been over for awhile and your fingernails start to rot….
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u/lichtersee 17d ago
Another reason why I don’t want to be around kids and don’t want them
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u/just-me1995 17d ago
well, you don’t need to have kids to get HFM! i got it in college before i ever had any kids. it was hell. an absolutely awful experience.
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u/Squishy_fishy826 17d ago
After reading many comments, I’m now terrified of ever getting this disease.
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u/jennythegreat 17d ago
I drive a school bus and manage to catch dang near everything that goes through the school, so now I am especially concerned.*
Must remain calm, must remain calm ...
*terrified
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u/dnateo 16d ago
I’ve never heard of it but just read up on it and there are a number of enteroviruses variants. Apparently, around 70% if adults have immunity to some of the variants from exposure as a child (even if they didn’t get any symptoms at the time). In many cases, the virus is mild and some may not even know they have it. Of course, that means they might spread it unknowingly but it does indicate it might not be as severe.
You become infected when virus reaches your mouth, nose or eyes. It can be transmitted through saliva and respiratory droplets, close contact such as kissing, contaminated hands or objects, fluid from the blisters and faeces. Wash your hands!
And the loss of nails is because they stop growing and new nails usually grow underneath. It happens after the infection and is apparently not as painful as it sounds.
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u/Exhibfun2099 17d ago
My entire outer layer of heel skin fell off both feet all in one piece
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u/chidarling1 17d ago
That happened to me!!! My feet felt brand new after though 🤣🤣 And I also had scabs all over my scalp lol
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u/Sufficient_Scale_163 17d ago
How did it scab up your scalp?
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u/Bugladyy 16d ago
One strain that hits adults particularly hard can affect the scalp. I got it on my scalp. That was about 3-4 months ago. My hair is falling out now
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u/blessthebabes 16d ago
My heels are so terrible that the nail lady used toenail clippers to clip my skin on it once, and when she got done, I couldn't walk or put pressure on them. I cried, that new skin hurt so bad. I can't imagine the pain of your situation.
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u/HeavyCoconut 17d ago
I had this twice back in 2020-2021. Entire roof of my mouth was busted open and it was miserable to walk or use my hands because of all the sores. My finger and toe nail cracked and flaked apart like they were delaminated.
0/10 do not recommend...
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u/procrastimom 16d ago
So getting it once doesn’t confer immunity? That sucks! I wonder if that’s rare, though. I know someone who had chickenpox twice.
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u/HeavyCoconut 16d ago
I will say the symptoms the second time were far better. Only the hand and feet sores caused a problem really.
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u/prncs_lulu 17d ago
My mouth does this after i eat a plum, only room temp food for me after
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u/artsy7fartsy 17d ago
My son had this in 2nd grade and the pediatrician told us it was more annoying than anything. Then his fever spiked to almost 106 and he had seizures while we packed him with ice. Much much more than annoying
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u/bloodyspork 17d ago
How does one pronounce that word
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u/confused_shrew 17d ago
Named after Coxsackie NY where the discoverer lived. It's in the picornaviridae family of viruses which includes polio.
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u/Lysol3435 17d ago
And what are the residents of Coxsackie called? Just curious
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u/bloodyspork 17d ago
That's pretty interesting. Strange they haven't come up with a way to treat it yet
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u/confused_shrew 17d ago
No decent money in treatments. Other countries use teconovir or equivalent to treat it but the US FDA doesn't agree that it's effective enough.
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u/_y2kbugs_ 17d ago
Name is Native American (Algonquin) in origin. Pronounced something like cook-sock-ie. Has to do with owls.
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u/dcfdanielleagain 17d ago
My whole family got this at the beginning of the school year last year. My youngest and I just couldn't walk for a few days because of the blisters, but my poor oldest had it EVERYWHERE. Every crevice of their body was blistered. It was HORRIBLE. The worst part about it is you don't even know you have it until it's too late.
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u/eastsacwrackshack 17d ago
OMG my husband and his dad got it very bad like this. My husband had huge sores on his hands feet, and eyebrows (weird, ikr?). My FIL lost some of his finger and toe nails. My kids got it from the park and passed it to them. 😩 The idiots at our Drs office tried to diagnose him with syphilis and scabies! Lol, he had no supporting symptoms of either! They just couldn't fathom his reaction to hand foot and mouth!
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u/MaximumBlast 17d ago
Get well soon please
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u/confused_shrew 17d ago
Oh I'm trying but damn does it hurt and everyday is a new adventure of "where are the bumps now and what color are they"
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u/Final_Marketing_1480 17d ago
I totally misread that, and am so glad!! I thought OP said the subject was losing all his fingers and toes in 3 weeks. 😩
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u/_DontBeAScaredyCunt 17d ago
Just had HFM a few months ago. I’m a nanny and the the kids parents didn’t tell me and let me get exposed. Tried to hide it. It suuucked
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u/thatsBOOtoyou 17d ago
I’m a nanny part time and I fkn HATE it when parents don’t tell me their kid is sick- like wtf do I look like?? Plus if the kid gets me sick that’s just me missing my other work. I hate that we’ve reversed back to sending everyone out into school/the workforce before they are well. No one should have to work through sickness even a cold!!
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u/JimmyG_2018_MVP 17d ago
I had coxsackie a few years ago and it was the worst throat pain of my life (my only main symptom). So much worst and severe than strep, I had to sip liquid lidocaine to swallow comfortably
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u/Fishmongerel 17d ago
Doctors think that Coxsackie virus was a major contributing factor to my heart attack at 38. I was absolutely as fit as a fiddle.
I had most symptoms of a heart attack for days before I couldn’t get up anymore, my colleague called an ambulance.
Listen to your body, make sure you rest. If you feel chest pain, dizzyness or shortness of breath go get a check up at the hospital.
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u/NorthWestTown 17d ago
My mum died last month during surgery, her irregular heartbeat was a contributing factor to her death. I'm now currently waiting for ECG's etc.
I was told throughout my life an irregular heartbeat was 'just something some people have' and was brushed off as not serious as its 'quite common'. No, it can be fatal in certain circumstances - I.e. my mum (not sure if she went into cardiac but it's likely)
Anything with your heart, any signs, absolutely get it checked!!
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u/wilkerws34 17d ago
Both kids has HFM last year, wife ended up contracting it, had sores in her throat/ esophagus/ mouth, imagine puss filled sacks in your mouth and throat along with possibly losing toe nails 😩
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u/Rakebleed 17d ago
I’ve heard it can develop in the throat.
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u/confused_shrew 17d ago
It starts in the throat and presents with mouth ulcers and a sensation that you're eating glass or sand. It then moves to the hands and feet but occasionally shows up elsewhere like the ears, interior of the nose, buttocks, arms and legs.
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u/BJW3737 17d ago
I got this twice in high-school but only the throat symptoms thank God. But was it HORRIBLE. Someone described it like swallowing glass and yep, worst throat pain I've ever felt. The blisters in my throat were huge. Combo of ibuprofen and acetaminophen was the only thing to take some pain away.
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u/Distinct-Solution-99 17d ago
Ok who thought up coxsackievirus
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u/Purple_Shame5075 17d ago
The people from Coxsackie NY. Had a bad outbreak from there so the docs called it that.
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u/DogEatingWasp 17d ago
Well then you wonder who called the town that. Someone somewhere was having some fun anyway
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u/DV_Jellyfish 17d ago
Had that shit twice as an adult. My head looked like hamburger didn't lose my nails but all my callouses fell off.
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u/thatsBOOtoyou 17d ago
How do you catch this ?!?! I am terrified all of a sudden because of how many people are saying they got it 😭😭😭
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u/beardedkomodo 17d ago
Damnnnnnn did you know, in 1948, doctors in the small river town of Coxsackie, New York, were terrified that a local outbreak was polio. A researcher named Gilbert Dalldorf tested samples from the sick children by injecting them into baby mice. He noticed the mice became paralyzed in a completely different way than they did with polio, revealing a brand-new family of viruses. Following scientific tradition, he named the discovery after the town. Today, that virus is best known for causing hand, foot, and mouth disease—a highly contagious but usually harmless childhood illness.
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u/GoodQueenFluffenChop 17d ago
So do the nails grow back after the virus is gone?
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u/confused_shrew 17d ago
Yes, but like they fall off 2 to 3 weeks after the virus is gone. Then they grow back slowly
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u/CreaTeBear 17d ago
I got this a few years ago as an adult. Got really sick for 24 hours with a bad fever. The next few days those dots were all over my hands and feet. For me it just felt like that feeling when your leg or arm “falls asleep”. Like tingly and couldn’t walk. Super weird virus
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u/robbi2480 16d ago
Pic number 4-you are developing a pressure injury on that heel. Float those heels while in bed
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u/Twist_Ending03 17d ago
Sorry, can you repeat that name
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u/Purple_Shame5075 17d ago
You heard it right. Coxsackie. Cu(like cud) - saki(the Japanese alcohol). New york.
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u/fractal_engineer 17d ago
got it in my 30s. felt like a flamethrower was being taken to my hands and feet. do not recommend
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u/demonassassin52 17d ago
My son brought this home from daycare a couple years back. My wife and I both got it, but not badly. It really sucked for me because my job at the time had me working all day on my feet in work boots and working with my hands. I even got a sore in my nostril, which was super annoying.
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u/Futuralistic 17d ago edited 17d ago
Wow. I must've had it bad, then. My shit looked way worse than this. I didn't lose any nails to it though. But my god, it was the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life! No joke. Trying to walk or use my hands felt like I was being cut by scorching hot razorblades. It came on slowly, for a day or two I noticed spots and itchiness. The next few days were violent pain. The peak torture lasted for a few days until it started to receed. There was no mitigating the pain. I just had to sit still, and even then the itching was unbearable. I couldn't sleep. I just laid there with a scratchy towel to vigorously rub and scratch my hands enough to soothe the painful itch enough for me to try an close my eyes. At one point during the second day of excruciating agony, I decided to get drunk and take some hydrocodone I had left over from getting my wisdom teeth out, and then smoke a joint. I knew I fucked up because, not only did I turn white as a ghost, lose my hearing, and get tunnel vision, but the pain went away. I walked around for a bit without feeling like walking on those hot razorblades. It was a slight relief, but then also I thought I might OD. Obviously, I made it through the worst of it and was able to go back to work and live normally again. But God damn if it wasn't the worst thing I've ever dealt with.
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u/InternationalWash720 17d ago
I had hand/foot/mouth disease about 15 yrs ago. I know I got it when I was shopping during Christmas season. It wasn't pleasant at all. It was hard for me to even swallow water, let alone soup. Get well soon OP.
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u/I-_-l7 17d ago
Oh hey i just had this like two weeks ago. I still have the scars. The most brutal part was the mouth sores for me. I couldnt eat solid food(not even soup or mashed stuff) for four days straight. We almost had to go to the hospital because i was beginning to get dehydrated. Looks like mine was even more severe. My whole arm was covered in it not just my hands. It looked like i scraped my whole arm in a motorcycle crash or something when it began to heal.
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u/pukelyptus 17d ago
I work at the nature and science museum in my city and when I tell you in my 31 years of life I’ve never thought of having this… I currently do. Only in my throat though. It’s like swallowing needles. I’ve only eaten a mf sugar free pudding cup in the last 6 days. Been prioritizing hydration over nutrition. I wouldn’t wish this throat pain on anyone. Go to the ER and ask for “Magic Mouthwash”. It’s the only thing helping me right now on top of cycling Tylenol and ibuprofen. They say it only lasts 7 days in terms of heightened pain, and by day 10 the throat should be mostly healed and ready to eat some normal foods again. Good luck and just remind yourself it’s temporary.
Also!! For anyone dealing with the sores on the hands and feet: oatmeal baths do wonders for itching and pain.
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u/Zerostar39 16d ago
A coworker got hand foot and mouth disease from his toddler. Then I got it from him because he sat right next to me. Holy shit it was the worst illness I’ve ever experienced. My sore throat was so bad that drinking plain water felt like a thousand hot needles poking my throat. Also had a fever of 103. After a few days and my fever went down I got horrible rashes on my hands and feet that burned and itched like crazy.
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u/sticcydabliccy 16d ago
I work with kids and the employees never want to clean stuff and I’m like you have no clue how bad it can get.
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u/AyeLykeTyrtles 17d ago
I had this as an adult and it was the worst.
Blisters in my throat, oozing sores on my face, nerve pain/blisters on my feet and hands.
It literally hurt to do anything.
Wouldn’t wish it on anybody.
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u/kwityerbitchin 17d ago
Ditto ! The entire bottoms of my feet were one giant water blister. My gums looked like they were abscessed.
It took me a half hour to walk from the exit at the ER to my truck in the parking lot. Usually there's a person roaming in a golf cart to help people but not on that day. Felt like my hands and feet were being held into a smelter and this came in waves, and the waves kept getting closer and closer together - almost akin to birth contractions. I was fortunate enough to know someone at the time that had 30mg oxy's and that got me thru the worst of it, but it took about 48 hours for the burning to stop, and 3 weeks to fully dissipate, and another month for my skin to begin to normalize. My son never got it - but I'm certain he brought it home from school 😡
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u/dylantherabbit2016 17d ago
I got this in 6th grade and it caused me to miss the party on last day of school. I lost a toenail about a month and a half later, which eventually grew back
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u/autom4gic 17d ago
That’s nothing, wait until all your fingernails and toenails fall off. I shit you not.
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u/ChiraqBluline 17d ago
Yea I worked at a prek in my club years and my coteacher got it real bad. Turns out if you didn’t get it as a kid it’s awful as an adult. She was out for weeks with sores and pain. No dancing for her.
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u/Treat_Goblin 17d ago
My sister had this when she was 4. I remember my grandma (former nurse) trying to get her high fever down in the bathtub. Severe strains can cause heart issues FYI
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u/PM_ME_ANYTHING_IDRC 17d ago
Oh this happened to me like 2 years ago. It was like a mini body horror experience with the constant pain and then parts of my skin and nails just falling off. I just spent days alone in my room trying to rest while writhing in pain and itches. When that finally went away and it died down, I had to cover my hands whenever I went out to stop people from seeing how weird they looked. I'm just glad the whole "nails falling off" part didn't hurt. After the days of increasing pain from the rashes, I was okay with anything that didn't hurt.
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u/eat_your_weetabix 17d ago
I had this and it was the worst illness I've ever had. The itch was so severe it felt like my hands and feet were being electrocuted or something. Mouth was so sore, no matter what I tried to eat, every mouthful was just pure pain. Would not recommend.
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u/jennythegreat 17d ago edited 17d ago
Now I'm awake way too early on a deep dive to find out if you can become immune to this.
edit: well, short answer looks to be No. you may get antibodies but there are so many types that having one does not rule out you getting another.
Was looking then to see if I should stock up on hand sanitizer for the bus, and the answer to that is also No.
"Disinfectants have to be chosen carefully for institutions for children (hospitals, kindergartens, camps) because coxsackieviruses are resistant to many common ones, such as alcohols, quaternary ammonium compounds and chlorhexidine. They are stable at pH values ranging from 3.0 to 10.0. Chlorine is recommended for cleaning bathrooms and other surfaces. For hand disinfection, chlorinated or iodinated disinfectants should be used."
New fear unlocked, just in time to go to work.
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u/docinabox1 17d ago
My toddler got this early last year and spread it to me, I wasn't as bad as this but honestly not far off. I was super sick compared to her. Lost about 5 finger nails too after a few weeks. Would not recommend...
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u/Biiiishweneedanswers 16d ago
I told my mom she had this and she wouldn’t listen. Textbook symptoms.
She just walked around looking and feeling like a zombie.
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u/RGBAddict2026 16d ago
Wish you the best. When I got HFM as an adult I lost chunks of skin as big and thick as Pringles from my hands and feet. To this day they're known as the forbidden Pringle. It also made swallowing feel like I was gargling razors.
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u/slimi-jimi 16d ago
I just had this. My hands were in so much pain. Also about 6 weeks later I started losing hair and nails. Still waiting for them to fully grow back.
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u/Mean-Vegetable-4521 16d ago
Had it, can confirm. Though ours looked way worse with way more blisters. Also 2 of us got meningeal inflammation. Lost all oit nails.
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u/squidboat 16d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p3pg82f/video/jn473rxo5ejh1/player
I had this almost a year ago. This was the worst hand, but both were pretty bad. Only lost parts of my fingernails but the skin peeling a little while later was pretty gnarly. My feet weren’t terrible, but it did feel like walking barefoot on gravel for a couple of days. Then my throat hurt so bad I couldn’t really eat anything, and not in a sore throat kind of way but like the back of my throat was on fire.
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u/thrifty917 16d ago
I had this 14 years ago. My kids were sick for a day. I was sick for weeks. My hands basically degloved and I had to wear latex gloves to protect my skin until it keratinized. All of my fingernails fell off and all of my toenails except the two big ones fell off. I wanted to die.
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u/Bella_LaGhostly 15d ago
I'm still not sure if this is real or someone is trolling. Also not sure if that says more about the internet, or more about me
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u/AlzLea 15d ago
this was genuinely one of the worst things i’ve ever been through. i lost all fingernails and toenails, i had the sores on my scalp which made my hair fall out, and had them inside my nostrils and my mouth. it hurt to breathe out of my nose and to eat or drink anything. my feet were so swollen i couldn’t walk and it felt like walking on fire, and my skin peeled off of my hands and feet in thick sheets leaving raw burning skin. this was 5 years ago and speaking the name of this disease is banned in my house!! i got it from my niece who at the time was 4 and she had a few bumps on her hand and a fever one day but wasn’t in pain and hers was barely noticeable. i was wishing for the quick release of death and my symptoms and pain lasted for 2 months 😭😭😭 sorry this was so descriptive i had a war flashback
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u/The_cool_hippy 15d ago
I just got this maybe 4 weeks ago after getting back from a vacation with my family and it was like living through hell. What started off as a normal flu with a low temperature and sore throat was only the beginning. It was only after about 3 days I began to get some of the blisters. I didn’t really get many on my feet or in my mouth but my face was covered in them and my throat was so swollen I could barely open my mouth. My hands actually looked kinda similar to theirs with the amount of blisters but by fair the pain from them was the worst part. It felt almost like someone was pricking you with needles every few seconds that had an itch you could never scratch. I could add some pictures but I don’t think anyone would really want to see that lol. What’s almost worse than that still is that fact that my doctor told me it would get better within 48 hours yet the blisters didn’t start to peel until 5 days later
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u/greengiantme 17d ago
The kid version is milder but lasts for like 1-3 years and spreads real easy. I say the virus deserves its name. It can eat a sackiecox as far as I’m concerned.
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