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.
I avoid those places and most in general since I am very introverted.
even most endos are completely clueless about the thyroid. they depend almost solely on TSH which is a pituitary hormone, not thyroid. And that doesn’t tell the whole story, at all. They also prescribe T4 only which is unhelpful and never encourage thyroid supporting supps which are iodine, selenium, mag, vit c and salt
Malaria?
The cancer thing was something my wife speculated about.
A very good friend of hers undergoing cancer treatment got some kind of bug and was dead in a couple of days.
I was thinking Lyme also. Difficult to find a Dr who takes it seriously though.
Sounds like Lyme disease along with co infections to me. Unfortunately, the tests are not very reliable and finding a Lyme literate doc is next to impossible. Oh, and less than 50% get that bullseye rash that could be a giveaway to diagnosis.
These guys can help too, beat the reaper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3zZ_ih0Jpc
No rashes or anything else unusual externally.
Something similar happened to me one summer while I was in college. Fever, chills, writing was a chore and my gait was almost reduced to a shuffle. Back to normal in a couple days. Never experienced anything lik it since.
I figure it was a flu virus of some sort.
Not sure what you do for a living, but if you meet a lot of different people during the day I would take the usual precautionary steps to avoid catching the flu.
I would also get a second opinion from a different physician.
I wondered that, too.
Maybe there is a Dr. Kildare episode that might be useful.
I’ll listen later.
Have you had your thyroid checked? Underactive thyroid leads to chills.
“Plug in your symptoms into a search engine.”
My sister did this and diagnosed my mother’s illness when she was close to death. That was after a doctor in an emergency room of a major hospital sent her home and told her that she was “just old”. Other doctors were clueless. They did only basic blood panels, and her illness isn’t tested in the basic panels — it’s an expanded panel.
Anyhow, there’s a chance you can get an answer online.
GO.
Give him another shot at it.
And one day go get a physical when you're healthy. Quacks do their best work on healthy people.
Seeing a doctor when you're healthy is the best way to avoid seeing them when you're sick!
Well I was blessed with a wonderful, dynamic endocrinologist. His first uestion is always, how do you feel. He then goes over every value of my blood work with me, he then does a complete physical exam of my thyroid, swallowing, sensation, etc. He also explains the give and take with t3 4 and tsh. When I went to him, I was almost weekly fluctuating between high and low thyroid. I was on synthroid and when my hyper thyroid would kick in I would have a thyroid storm because of all the hormone in my system. Then I would experience adrenal fatigue and would be almost comatose. He took me off synthroid and I have never looked back. I love this top doc.
Check out acam.org for American College for Advancement of Medicine professionals. Also check for functional medicine practitioners. I had an alternative nurse practitioner treat me for c.diff and several other co-infections. It took about 6 months to get it sorted out. Ended up using ozone therapy, which cleared my lymph nodes within 2 hrs of the 1st session.
Get checked for Lyme. Had a friend undiagnosed for years. Also check Menangitis. Has also happened to another friend undiagnosed.
A decent one is a rare gem. Did you go on NDT? What are you on?
I have lived through what you are describing. I had a hernia below my navel that was about 3” long. My intestine would pop out and then back into place, and it was bruised pretty well and that would be the symptoms you are experiencing after the fact. I would go to the emergency room, they would do all the CT scans contrast etc, and no dice. They did “exploratory” surgery and found it.
Something to think about.
Sounds like Malaria to me. Have you been anywhere tropical recently?
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