Posted on 02/22/2018 5:22:23 PM PST by wally_bert
Three times this year I've been hit with a sudden and strong bout of some kind sickness.
It's gone like this: Severe chills, extreme drowsiness, weakness to the point being unable to move for about a half a day. Then the chills turn into a higher temp but not feverish, slight nausea, but still so drowsy and weak. Usually by 2 or 3 am I finally throw up and start feeling better.
The first time I toughed it out and didn't go to the quack. In a couple of days I was fine.
The second time a couple weeks ago I got hit again and went to the medical types. I tested negative for flu but I asked for tamiflu and was OK in a couple of days.
This last round was yesterday. I was having a normal day at the office and within 30 minutes of feeling something wasn't right, I was getting hit hard.
I went straight to the medics and asked them to text me when my slot came open. It was so cold to me, I stayed in my truck with the heat blasting on 75 degree day.
Eventually I got in and examined. My white blood count was very high but nothing else objectionable. Chest X-ray ran and lungs were clean.
Never did I have any breathing or congestion problems.
The antibiotics help so far.
It was the being so cold that scared me a little.
I still seem to be one of those that apparently exists to confound the medical community.
I'm 95% better now and will go to the mines.
Dehydration and mineral deficiency, perhaps at the same time or cyclically depending on your activity level. Can get serious chills (esp in winter) without proper hydration- body migrates the hydration away from the outside and the limbs to preserve core temperature.
Hmmmm. Do you frequent bathhouses?
Everything else I know of would either have more symptoms or would have been a one time thing.
But goodness knows I am no doctor.
Does this happen after you’ve eaten, is there any rhyme or reason to when this comes on? You said you threw up the first time. How about the other two times, any nausea or vomiting?
That aside, first thing that crossed my mind was Lyme disease, which can manifest in all manner of weird ways, need to get on it quick with a strong course of antibiotics if so.
High wbc means infection and/or something unpleasant like cancer.
I would start beefing up suplements that strengthen your immune system, like astragalus, ashwaganda, ginseng, turmeric, cinnamon, garlic/allicin, echinacea, goldenseal, vitamin c, d, k2, magnesium, all b vitamins, plus antioxidants like coq10, resveratrol, and NAC.
Allergy, symptoms similar to son’s barley allergy.
Legionnaire’s disease from office air cond system poor filtration?
Sounds like a potential toxic thyroid condition. Do not assume thyroid blood tests are accurate, see an endocrinologist. My family doctor about killed me relying on routine blood work.
Any foreign travel by you or close ones in the past few months or peers in the same work environment.
I second lyme disease because the cyclical nature suggests a parasite or spirochetes and because antibiotics help
Or another of the tick borne diseases
It can be very hard to diagnose without an expert
If you have it - need to get treated or it progresses
Lyme disease?
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My guess also. Not many doctors have expertise in diagnosis this illness. Seek out a specialist who has an established track record in treating lyme disease. I had a friend who went for years struggling with the illness until he found someone who identified and effectively treated the disease. You never get rid of it, but it can be managed.
Malaria?
I’m overweight a little but that’s all.
LOL
Weirder things have happened but I don’t have anything really worth bumping me off for.
Quack wants me to come by for a follow-up tomorrow.
Only if I drank coffee.
I can’t stand the stuff.
you forgot iodine :)
It sounds like the non-flu flu I had last year starting in January. Took me 8 weeks to get rid of it. The doctor told me I didn’t have the flu, but simply a “virus” which I probably got because my immune system was low due to stress.
Symptoms: Alternating chills and fever, fatigue, rash on chest and face, blisters on hands and arms, cough, sore throat. No nausea though. A couple of times I started feeling better but then relapsed.
I think it’s some oddball type of food poisoning.
That’s happened to me once or twice but these were different rides.
Good idea,5mg,5 mcg, 50,000 mg,liquid form, cap form, all at once,AM/PM,2x's a day with or with out meals?
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