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...

[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.

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

Eep - Kristina! Take care. Thinking of you.

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

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