1. Get a new doctor. I don’t know your location but there are major medical centers in every region of the US.
2. When the doctor says you are crazy, think MS and get checked thoroughly... MRI, spinal tap, etc.
I was sick and spent two weekends in different Hospitals recently. My creatinine level had gotten up to 4.7. They think that was due to dehydration from diarrhea.
However, they found 3 nodules on my thyroid. The thyroid can screw up a lot of things in your body. They’re going to do a test to determine if a biopsy is needed. Have them check your thyroid.
Right now I’ve got a cough and nasal drip they can’t figure out. Had the same thing in December.
But the big problem is the possibility of artery blockage. But my kidneys are in such bad shape the dye used when stents are placed could put me on dialysis.
My wife said “I guess that’s why they call it practicing medicine.”
Hope they figure it out and you get better.
Doctors who can effectively treat Lyme Disease are few and far between. If you think you may have it, FREEP mail me for a recommendation.
You don’t get bonus points for infecting every one around you
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.
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.
Poison?
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.
Relapsing fever? Might need to check blood for parasite or bacteria or use PCR to check blood out.
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.
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.
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.
Sorry you have been so sick. Unsettling that they don’t know what it is. Do you pray? I’ll pray for you.
Sorry to hear that it is recurring.
What level were your wbc count? The actual number.
Also, did they do a differential with a breakdown of the wbc’s Such as neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes?