I am a nurse whose 51 year old husband currently has the mumps. We have no idea where he contracted this. His job in retail is our best guess. Profound swelling to the right jaw area, pain, malaise. No high fever noted at the onset. It was first thought to be a TMJ type discomfort by his MD and he was placed on muscle relaxers and medrol dose pak. The minute steriod therapy completed, his jaw swelling worsened and has never changed during the time of steroid use. Published: October 07 ::

I had mumps when I was 6 years old. The fever was very high and difficult to cope with. Unfortunately I don't recall exactly the treatment, aside from a cool bath to reduce the fever. However I do know at some point they said, "the mumps got down to the pancreas," so I got pancreatitis which complicated the situation. According to my mother, doctors didn't know what to do until one doctor came up with an answer that fixed me. I have to say it was a small town, undeveloped medicine, untrained doctors, a lot of mysticism. Published: November 02 ::