anybody else sick?

[Guest guest]

A few days before Xmas, I started to sweat a lot at night and most

especially, when I woke up.

My temperature has always been low, I average about 97.1 to 97.5 most

of the time - regardless of my thyroid meds (Armour). Now it is a

steady 96.8 degrees.

It has been 10 days now, and I am just getting sicker and sicker. I

honestly have never been this ill, this long, in my life.

I know it must be viral because when it hit, I was taking Augmentin XL.

I stopped the augmentin 7 days ago because I thought I was sick because

of it - a herx or something.

Now I think it is a flu. Three other people I know have also been ill,

two of them were down a couple days, slept a lot and were finished with

it. Myself and another have been ill for a lot longer. The other person

is Dx's with MS and my Dx is Lyme. She ended up in Emergency and trust

me, if I thought for a minute they could help me, I would be in

Emergency too. Chances are more likely that I would go to Emergency and

sit miserable for 8 hours waiting.

Oh my God I can't handle it much longer. I sweat and freeze and sweat

and freeze. My appetite is not effected, I am not nauseous. As soon as

my room temp hits 73 degrees I start to sweat. All-over body pain is

killer, joint pain especially.

I tried to sit in my spa the last couple days and that seems to help

temporarily, but my temperature never shifts from a steady 96.8 no

matter what.

Anybody else sick out there? Any ideas?

Cheers,

*S*

[Guest guest]

Yup, got the flu late Thurday night. Temp was 102 all day Friday and what a

number

it was doing on my heart (pounding, resting rate averaging 110). Today the

fever has

broken but everything else is in full swing. I have to be very vigilant with

this because

of underlying bad asthma.

This is a bonus to last week's c. diff infection. I'm off abx as a consequence

of that,

and will see my pcp on wednesday to figure out what to do next.

better health in 2006 for all.

>

> A few days before Xmas, I started to sweat a lot at night and most

> especially, when I woke up.

> My temperature has always been low, I average about 97.1 to 97.5 most

> of the time - regardless of my thyroid meds (Armour). Now it is a

> steady 96.8 degrees.

>

> It has been 10 days now, and I am just getting sicker and sicker. I

> honestly have never been this ill, this long, in my life.

> I know it must be viral because when it hit, I was taking Augmentin XL.

> I stopped the augmentin 7 days ago because I thought I was sick because

> of it - a herx or something.

> Now I think it is a flu. Three other people I know have also been ill,

> two of them were down a couple days, slept a lot and were finished with

> it. Myself and another have been ill for a lot longer. The other person

> is Dx's with MS and my Dx is Lyme. She ended up in Emergency and trust

> me, if I thought for a minute they could help me, I would be in

> Emergency too. Chances are more likely that I would go to Emergency and

> sit miserable for 8 hours waiting.

> Oh my God I can't handle it much longer. I sweat and freeze and sweat

> and freeze. My appetite is not effected, I am not nauseous. As soon as

> my room temp hits 73 degrees I start to sweat. All-over body pain is

> killer, joint pain especially.

> I tried to sit in my spa the last couple days and that seems to help

> temporarily, but my temperature never shifts from a steady 96.8 no

> matter what.

> Anybody else sick out there? Any ideas?

> Cheers,

> *S*

>

[Guest guest]

On Monday, January 2, 2006, at 02:07 PM, duramater27 wrote:

> Yup,  got the flu late Thurday night.

I hope you are better soon. I am still not capable of catching a virus,

so I can't get the flu. I wonder if I could even get Avian flu. I don't

really want to find out though.

- Kate D.