Is There A Doctor In The House?

[desoto_hia873]

Technically, I'm one. However, I'm the not-particularly-useful PhD sort rather than the can-actually-help-people MD sort. Pity.

I spiked a fever this morning. Despite being full of tylenol and codeine at the moment, I'm still at 102F. Which hurts like a sonofabitch - every time I get a fever, every joint in my body feels like it's on fire. I have no other symptoms at all - just a fever. This happened a few years ago and I wound up running a low-grade fever of about 100C for a year.

Yes, a year. Who runs a frickin' fever for a year?!? Well, besides me, of course.

I had every test known to mankind and they found nothing except an elevated RBC sedimentation rate, which is diagnostic of nothing.

Thank God I haven't packed my DVD box sets yet. I'm going to go and have a marathon session of Six Feet Under and hope it doesn't become prophetic. :-/

Comments

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

At the risk of waxing all Itrawebz0r MD, it sounds a bit like fibromyalgia. It comes and goes, causes a lot of muscle pain with fever, and is a very bitch to diagnose.

Of course it could be a million things, and I'm only clicking on fybromyalgia because I had it. But for what it's worth...

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

I did see a rheumatologist back in the day - she asked me a raft of questions and told it wasn't fibromyalgia. But who knows?

Does it usually cause really high fevers? I'm over 103F now.

::shivers::

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

103. That's awful.

Fibromyalgia caused me high fevers, night sweats and pain in the acute phase. During the day it was a low fever, with wicked aches from stem to stern that would get stabby in some places. Weirdly, I placed my hand on the spot of extreme pain once and the area was burning up, much hotter than the rest of my body.

I've been told that fibromyalgia may be related to chronic fatigue syndrom and varies from person to person, but muscle pain and fever seem to be very common.

I was lucky... once I was out of the monastery getting sufficient sleep (and back to eating lots of protein) the symptoms abated. I've only had trouble once every couple of years since, when I wasn't getting enough rest.

It probably couldn't hurt to look into recent info on fibromyalgia (and eat lots of cheese! :) I hope you're feeling better soon.

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Good heavens, you poor thing! What you went through sounds awful. I had a bout of night sweats while running the year-long low-grade fever - I'd have to get up and change two or three times a night. I pretty much felt like I had a mild case of the flu for a year. I really hope it doesn't happen again.

Cheese? As it happens, I've had alot of cheese this weekend, though it wasn't intentional. Maybe it'll help.

I got up to 104F last night before going to bed (I was wondering when my brain was going to start to cook), but am down to a much more reasonable 101F today. Thank goodness.

[styrofoam-guy.livejournal.com]

Hey I hope you are feeling better soon.

A whole year?

I used to get sick in the spring just as the weather got warmer. It wasn't a cold and I didn't have a fever but I would always be stuffed up. It would last for a month or 2.

It wasn't allergies as meds didn't do anything to make it better

Last spring was the first time in years that I didn;t get whatever it was.

The body is very odd and medicine sure is a guessing game a lot of the time.

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a whole year. I was tested for everything - tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, West Nile, and a whole bunch of other stuff - and they came up with nothing. After a while, I found myself wondering if I was making it all up - but I had the thermometer as evidence. It was very weird.

Someone suggested allergies to me, too, but as far as I know I don't have any.

You're right that the body is very odd.

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

Eep - Kristina! Take care. Thinking of you.

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :-) Still alive and kicking today - fever is lower and I feel improved enough to be BORED.

What a weekend.

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

Oh dear - feel better soon! ::makes tea::

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Tea always helps. :-) Thanks!