As an 18 yr. old girl, I got a very stiff neck (moving from left to right was really bad/impossible). 2 days later, I developed a 105 fever and sore throat. My doctor seemed very concerned and a little puzzled. He took my blood, then declared I had acute pharyngitis and almost hospitalized me, but gave me an abx shot, made two housecalls, and gave me another shot a few days later. I lived, but it was a week of being very very sick. Less than a year later, I got the stiff neck again. Hoping it was a crick, I went to a chiropractor. As soon as he snapped my neck, an overwhelming feeling of sickness overcame me, and the fever ensued. I got to 105 again, and my throat got sore. I went to a doctor (this was a different town, so not my regular doctor. He was rather detached and uncaring since I needed help to walk I was so weak) He gave me abx shot. The fever would not get below 103.5 no matter how much tylenol and motrin I took. It stayed around 105 and a smidge above for 5 solid days, even with all the medicine. I began having horrible cramping spasms in some tube in my belly every 17 seconds and then vomited bile every 20 seconds for 24 hours exactly. It was like being in labor, wave after wave of acute squeezing, then profuse vomiting. It was horrific. I filled up 2 small trash cans with bile and was profoundly sick. I had no support as I was off at college. I am skeptical this was just a bad sore throat infection. What do you suspect was wrong with me? What is interesting is the first time I got sick, it was when I was signing a lease and getting my new apartment ready for college. I got sick again while living there. It had rats. I always wondered if something to do with the rats made me sick.