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.
"Wally?" Sounds like a flu which goes into dormancy for a while before reviving.
That seems very plausible.
Sorry you have been so sick. Unsettling that they don’t know what it is. Do you pray? I’ll pray for you.
This has been a weird one no doubt.
The anti-biotics have apparently worked this time too. I’d like to hope it isn’t a coincidence and the good quack made the right call. I’ll take it as a win either way.
I’ve gotten way more here in terms of good advice and such than a search engine would have ever given.
I’ll mention this to quack definitely.
Regarding my use of “quack” is the opposite of what most people think.
My sense of humor is a tad dry and maybe blunt but I have nothing but the highest regard for medical people no matter the job. I don’t have the stomach or nerve for it.
First aid and field stuff can handle and I will do what I can to help. I try to at least read up on the stuff once in a while.
Sorry to hear that it is recurring.
Thanks.
Some way to start off a new year. All in all, everything else has been going OK or better.
I’ve had weird stuff happen before and somehow I have kept going.
You are motivated to find the best solution for yourself; the MD, by a paycheck and to avoid a lawsuit.
If it *does* turn out to be Lyme, there are little-known possible treatments. Google Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker (MD out of Duke, now retired) — he’s done a lot on mold related illnesses (which share with Lyme, the element of fat-soluble neurotoxins; what is worse, some people are genetically predisposed to be more sensitive to these toxins than others).
Most doctors and most medical care are excellent, but issues can develop when a particular ailment or condition does not mesh with the standard diagnostic and treatment algorithms. When that happens, a patient is like a fast food customer trying to order a gourmet meal off the menu. Since your ailment does not yet offer clear diagnostic signs, the usual approach is to give the Magic Ball answer of "Try Again Later."
This almost always works because many infections are of no lasting significance and the patient recovers without incident. Wait and see also avoids the expense and potential harm of unnecessary treatments.
As I suggest, you are getting to the point of needing additional help. Ask your doctor to work with you on a referral to a specialist or to a research hospital.
I’ll have to see about a copy Harrison’s. I can’t say I’ve heard of that book.
Medical has come a long way and I’m amazed at the things that can be done now. It’s still practicing medicine though and oddballs like me are hard to work on some. Internally, a lot of things never quite worked right, or just enough and barely especially up until my 20s.
I’ll have a decent list of stuff that I’ve gotten from all the good people here to pitch to the learned medical person. I can’t complain about the medical types around Columbia, they’ve done well by me.
Thank you again.
What level were your wbc count? The actual number.
Also, did they do a differential with a breakdown of the wbc’s Such as neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes?
That’s what I was thinking as well - that a high wbc should be looked at. Not sure what he means as high. When I hear high wbc it may not mean the same to everyone.
Normal I think is 10-11. Mine was over 80 when I was diagnosed with AML.
Agree. Does he have a low platelet count as well? Mine was sitting at 10 for a while. There’s been a platelet shortage for years as it takes a few hours to donate them. So, they don’t give platelet transfusions till you get to under 20 I think.
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