Four days ago I woke up in the night with a very high fever, facial discomfort, muscle weakness and spasms, loss of apetite and general nausea. My head also felt swollen, though I suspected this was from the fever.

The symptoms were quite severe and lasted 48 hours, then for a further 48 hours but to a much lesser extent.

Days after I recovered, my housemate was diagnosed with mumps. I'm trying to figure out if this is what I had. Obviously the incubation period for mumps is 2 weeks so it is unlikely, he caught it off me, but i'm wondering if we both could have been exposed to the disease around the same time, as we would obviously spend a lot of time together.

The strange thing is, my salivary glands did not swell up, and I do not remember having neck pain, also my symptoms died away in 4 days, less than i've read is normal.

In your opinion did I have mumps, or was it something unrelated? Need to know as i'm worried about catching it having just being ill!

Thanks,