freaky freaky symptoms

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Here’s one for the Dr. House’s in the crowd.

Flu started sunday night, beautifully pedestrian flu.
Monday, high fever, felt ick. Due to a bacterial lymph infection that ran parrallel to some walking pnemonia last fall I went to the Dr. to see if he thought I should do anything extra curricular to my average flu. He says here, have four days of azithromycin as a precaution. Alrighty! I says.
Tuesday, still flu crappiness, not as bad as monday.
Wednesday, realized I’d lost the remaining azithromycin pills but not before feeling a hot flooding feeling in the middle of the afternoon. LITERALLY in the space of 5 seconds I could no longer feel my flu symptoms. I felt GREAT. I thought SHIT. Something has gone terribley wrong. Walked out of class to the college Dr. He says I have a fever of 39.2 C, and that he isn’t sure what it is other than that I should take some Tylenol, water, and sleep. I go home, gf draws an ice cold bath. I jump in “Is this water hot or cold?” I ask. Her eyes widen and she calls healthlink (phone diagnosis). No extra help there. In my curiosity I bit into my forearm, I drew blood but couldn’t feel the pain. As my fever (I assumed) subsided, I could feel my flu symptoms. Thought I was out of the bushes. Today I figured I was over half way to better, til about supper time when I felt the same hot flood, and I felt really good again. Checked my temperature twice with two different termometers; normal. Made the additional discovery that during these periods I have no sense of taste or smell. The “senseless” period just passed again and now I feel kinda flu-ey.

Whaaaaat theeeeee heeeeeell?

Yours Truly,
Sickboy

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Look on the bright side. You could have malaria! Or Hodgkin’s disease!

In all serious, my WAG: the fever is doing something hinky with your neurology–you had no sense of touch (from biting your forearm or feeling the water’s temperature), taste, or smell. Maybe something to do with the hypothalamus?

I really, really, really suggest you get it checked out by an actual doctor, though, because it doesn’t sound good.

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Lupus.

IANAD, nor do I play one on TV, but they always seem to guess Lupus…

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I hope you feel better as quickly as possible. What you should do, though, is head to your doctor and seek his/her advice, and not listen to strangers on a message board (where, as been said before, any medical opinion of ours is worth what you pay for it).