2 posts tagged “fever”

My doctor sent me for bloodwork on Wednesday morning since I have had a 99.1 to 100.3 fever for ten days (we are on 12 now). She is going to test for Lyme Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis among other bloodwork tests. I thought it might be Hand, Foot, and Mouth since I have developed in the last two days five small bumps on fingers of my two hands. They are painful to touch or put pressure on but they aren't itchy or very big. In fact, they are hard to see; I can sure feel them when I pick something up, though. The doctor disagreed since the bumps came too late after the start of the fever.

The fever has me pretty rundown. I think it is gone and then it spikes back up again. Tylenol can keep it at bay for about five hours but then it is back around 99.8 or a bit higher. It tends to stay around the 99.3 to 99.8 level. I get the sweats during the 99.5 to 99.9 and it is uncomfortable. I get aches and chills when it hits the 100 mark and higher. I have had the fever so long now that I can predict fairly accurately what my temperature is to the tenth of a degree. It's been a bit amazing.

I tried staying home two different days last week but gave in when the fever didn't break and nothing else surfaced. Schools have a thing about fevers but since I am being reviewed by a doctor they seem satisfied. The nurse sadly said that I will probably have to get worse before we know what is wrong. I wish it could just be the flu and that I worried over nothing. My brain and the internet have given me everything from cancer, to aids, to meningitis. The internet can be a dangerous item when your ill.

I'll let all know when I know. Dang, I wish the fever would just go away!

I do. I really feel icky. It started on Sunday around noon but I just thought my alergies to the pollen was the cause. I hung out with my friend, Jen, and her kids playing two wonderful games of Clue so I didn't think much of the achy shoulders and chest, or the thumping headache. When I got home my eyes started to burn so I decided to take some tylenol and take my temperature. 100.7 - no wonder I felt bad. I went to bed early but between sweaty tossing and turning and my 6 year old waking up every hour shaking with fear over nightmares I didn't get much sleep.

My fever wasn't around in the morning, neither was the headache, but the aches were still there. I stayed home. At noon I started to feel real icky so I took my temperature again and it was up to 100.4 - tylenol and a two hour nap helped and it didn't return until around 10pm.

I slept pretty good last night and felt pretty good this morning, minus a few aches, so I went to work. I know, I know. Schools frown upon going to school for 24 hours after a fever. I now know why. At noon I stopped by the nurse's office of the second school I was in and they took my temperature. 100 again! She sent me home. I rested at home and then went and got the kids. We ate leftover pizza and went to cub scouts. I sat most of the time cutting the nose cone shapes for the upcoming bottle rockets so it was easy going. We came home and I started to feel icky again. It is back to 100.5 again. My chest still feels a bit tight and my shoulders and ribcage ache. I'm not coughing, I don't have a stuffy nose or sinus pressure, My stomach feels fine. What could it be, then, that is making me spike a fever and feel so icky?????