simbah
01-11-2007, 06:54 PM
Hi again Dr Joshua;
I posted to you before, thank you for your feedback. My doctor will not refer me to a specialist, nor will he attempt to diagnose me. I am still having all of the symptoms below plus some new ones. I am unable to eat at this point because everything tastes bad ie. sweet food is much too sweet and salty food is much to salty. My doctor has referred me to a psych. and he feels that this is the problem. How can mental illness cause a fever?? It makes no sense to anybody why he will not refer me, even if his opinion is that I am nuts he should still respect my choice to see a specialist. I hope you can help me.
Thanks
Hi Dr. Joshua;
I hope you can give me some direction. For the last 4 weeks (that I have noticed, may have been going on indefinetly??) I have had a low grade fever. It have never gone higher than 100.1 and it is usually 99.7-99.9 I have also been waking up at night bathed in sweat, loss of appetite, swollen lymph nodes in neck and itching. My GP ran a urinalysis on me and found that my white blood cell count was elevated in my urine. He gave me antibiotics and that was it, the fever did not go away. 2 months ago I went to the doctor because I had a red rash (looked like measles) on my face and neck and I was itching so bad that I was literally tearing at my neck and face. He ran blood work and found that I had a bacterial infection and that my vitamin B was low. He called the bacterial infection non-specific. I was wondering if you might be able to give me some idea as to what might be wrong.
Thank you and Happy New Year.
I posted to you before, thank you for your feedback. My doctor will not refer me to a specialist, nor will he attempt to diagnose me. I am still having all of the symptoms below plus some new ones. I am unable to eat at this point because everything tastes bad ie. sweet food is much too sweet and salty food is much to salty. My doctor has referred me to a psych. and he feels that this is the problem. How can mental illness cause a fever?? It makes no sense to anybody why he will not refer me, even if his opinion is that I am nuts he should still respect my choice to see a specialist. I hope you can help me.
Thanks
Hi Dr. Joshua;
I hope you can give me some direction. For the last 4 weeks (that I have noticed, may have been going on indefinetly??) I have had a low grade fever. It have never gone higher than 100.1 and it is usually 99.7-99.9 I have also been waking up at night bathed in sweat, loss of appetite, swollen lymph nodes in neck and itching. My GP ran a urinalysis on me and found that my white blood cell count was elevated in my urine. He gave me antibiotics and that was it, the fever did not go away. 2 months ago I went to the doctor because I had a red rash (looked like measles) on my face and neck and I was itching so bad that I was literally tearing at my neck and face. He ran blood work and found that I had a bacterial infection and that my vitamin B was low. He called the bacterial infection non-specific. I was wondering if you might be able to give me some idea as to what might be wrong.
Thank you and Happy New Year.