From a basic gist of the symptoms that you have described, it would appear that you are suffering from a viral fever or some sort. The most likely cause might be the flu or even the common cold that has manifested in a fever. This is something that you don’t need to be worried about except if your fever is starting to go out of control and you are experiencing temperatures higher than 104 degrees centigrade. This is a medical emergency so if this should happen, you should immediately immerse yourself in some cold water and reduce your body temperature.
Viral infections are a common occurrence during the course of a year. The recent scare of the swine flu has ensured an adequate scare of most respiratory tract infections. Despite the possibility of this disease causing serious respiratory problems, a majority of humanity can survive this and many upper respiratory tract infections by simply allowing the body to fight the viral infection. Viral infections can however be quite problematic because of the amount of problems that it can cause like high fevers and cytokine storms. A cytokine storm is an exaggerated response to a viral attack by the body, which causes the body to start attacking its own tissues. In swine flu, high fevers and cytokine storms are what cause death with the destruction of lung tissue. Fevers are usually quite severe during a viral infections and this can manifest in deep muscular pain. This can sometimes be mistaken for bone pain and combined with the chills can really confuse one as to where the problem exactly originates.
What you need to do is to start taking some rest and more specifically sleep more often during the day. This is because when you are awake, one of the stress hormones called cortisol is constantly in your system and this can reduce the immune system’s ability to fight infections. There are no cures for viral infections so all that you can do is to be well nourished and moderate the fever and inflammation in the body. This can be done by drinking lots of soup with ginger, garlic, chili, turmeric, and black pepper in it. These have analgesic properties and garlic has some antibiotic properties. The fever will subside in a few days but continue to rest after that to ensure that you do not suffer chronic fatigue.
answered by G M