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Strange symptoms - quack is perplexed
2/22/2018 | Self

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.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: health; medical; sickness; symptoms
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To: Nifster

At least no one around me including the spousal unit never had so much as a sniffle.


81 posted on 02/22/2018 7:35:00 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wally_bert

You ran a temp. You demanded Tamiflu even though you did not test positive for influenza

The only quack is you


82 posted on 02/22/2018 7:40:08 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: wally_bert

Have a friend who had like symptoms. Took forever to finally get diagnosed, but it was a treatable type of lymphoma. Now in complete remission.


83 posted on 02/22/2018 7:41:41 PM PST by battletank
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To: wally_bert

You’re doing your job as a patient then.
Doc gonna watch that WBC count. But if your symptoms are gone and the WBC is down he’s not going to have anything to go on.
But if it happens again go early and push for a resolution.


84 posted on 02/22/2018 7:44:56 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: wally_bert
Try this for ideas:

WebMD Symptom Checker:

https://symptoms.webmd.com/default.htm#introView

You may need to ask your "quack" for a referral to an academic medical center.

85 posted on 02/22/2018 7:46:25 PM PST by TChad (Leftthink: Reality is sadly out of touch with the higher truth.)
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To: wally_bert

Your doc needs to send your for a complete blood test.


86 posted on 02/22/2018 7:48:58 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Secret Agent Man

1. Could really be an allergen, maybe keep a diary as to where you are, what you eat, when, and possibly pinpoint what it could be if you see a pattern.

2. Agree with the commenters who ask you to seek more medical testing.

3. Agree with secret agent man that you should see if therapeutically upping your minerals and vitamins helps. From his list, I’d have you start with the vitamins c, D3, k2, all b vitamins, magnesium, some trace minerals to add to your water glass or bottle (or natural mineral bath if you take baths), and turmeric. Do that for a week and see if it helps. It can’t not help you overall, so if it does or doesn’t stop your scary symptoms, I’d add his other herbs and garlic.

Praying the symptoms never return from now on.


87 posted on 02/22/2018 7:50:32 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: wally_bert

By the way, I developed an adult onset allergy that’s is pretty severe, to macadamia nuts. And the doc recommended to avoid all tree nuts. So don’t think that because you were not in the past allergic to a substance, it means you still aren’t.


88 posted on 02/22/2018 7:52:08 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Nifster

I asked for some that time but didn’t have a lot of hope for the stuff. The quack was on the fence but didn’t have any better ideas.

Can’t win them all.


89 posted on 02/22/2018 7:54:45 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wally_bert
Carolina Lyme - Education about Lyme Disease in the Carolinas

carolinalyme.org

90 posted on 02/22/2018 7:54:47 PM PST by Daaave ("You Nexus huh? I design your eyes.")
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To: Nifster

Thanks, that saved me time.


91 posted on 02/22/2018 7:55:05 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: spacejunkie2001
"Is it possible you’re being poisoned? not being facetious; just need to consider it when all other reasons are ruled out."

That was my first thought too.

92 posted on 02/22/2018 7:57:05 PM PST by blam
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To: wally_bert

Poison?


93 posted on 02/22/2018 8:18:34 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: wally_bert

You don’t say where you are located. If you were in Arizona I would think that you have valley fever, which is hard to diagnose and even harder to get rid of.


94 posted on 02/22/2018 8:31:32 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: wally_bert

Relapsing fever? Might need to check blood for parasite or bacteria or use PCR to check blood out.


95 posted on 02/22/2018 8:44:42 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find)
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To: wally_bert

this sounds VERY VERY similar to when i came down with Lyme Disease nearly 20 years ago. virtually no one knew anything about it then and so I was never diagnosed nor treated, and after having it for so many years it’s pretty much never going to go away.

To me, one of the tipoffs you mention is that the antibiotics made you feel better which is the same thing that happened to me at the time as well, but the problem is that successful treatment of Lyme Disease can take weeks and even months of antibiotic treatment, so it will come back within days of a short course of antibiotics

i see that you are in SC, and it was either in the low country of SC or western PA where i contracted the disease via tick bite back around the year 2000.

i STRONGLY encourage you to find a doctor who specializes in Lyme Disease and knows how to properly treat it, and be tested for it via a Western Blot test.

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/lyme-disease/diagnosis/

If you DO have Lyme Disease, it is a very serious situation that will slowly destroy your life if not PROMPTLY and CORRECTLY treated ASAP.


96 posted on 02/22/2018 9:20:56 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: wally_bert

My wife vomited a couple times “for no reason”. A couple weeks later she had stomach pain so we went in for a checkup.

The doctor slowly pushed his finger into her abdomen, then withdrew it quickly. My wife let out a yelp.

The doctor said she has to go to the hospital right now. Her appendix was ready to burst.


97 posted on 02/22/2018 9:44:55 PM PST by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: wally_bert
As someone suffering from chronic anemia, splenomegaly, portal hypertension in my liver, and a low platelet count that should have killed me by now, I'd say if your WBC is spiking that high, you really need to insist on thoracic/abdominal MRI. It sounds like something embedded a lot deeper than a case of wintertime office cooties being spread around could be in play here. Seriously, you could have a tumor or a cyst raising hell in there that could be causing it. Don't let the quacks sandbag you on it, . Your WBC count only goes up as a physiological defense mechanism against an invading body. Including a malignant growth. Even if it turns out negative, it's a possibility eliminated, not to mention a peace of mind gained.
98 posted on 02/22/2018 10:08:45 PM PST by Viking2002 ("For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 7:8)
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To: wally_bert

Could be thyroid I had thyroid problem was freezing cold, EXTREMLY tired but no nausea I also gained some weight with no explanation of the weight gain!!! I am not familiar with lyme decease but I understand it is VERY DIFFICULT to diagnose, have you looked VERY CLOSE at your entire body to see if a tick might be present somewhere??? Would be very hard to find if on the scalp in the hair!!!!


99 posted on 02/22/2018 10:21:00 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: wally_bert

Your general symptoms, high white blood cell count, and favorable response to antibiotics suggests that you have what is referred to as an occult infection. Your appendix or gallbladder may be infected, or you might have a tooth gone bad, or you may have any of a long list of other infections and pathogens. Cancer or Type C viral hepatitis cannot be excluded. I recommend that you get an immediate referral to the leading infectious disease specialist in your area, or get to the best teaching hospital in your region. An occult infection can quickly turn septic and become life-threatening.


100 posted on 02/23/2018 12:23:22 AM PST by Rockingham
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