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. :-/

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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.