Hi,
I have had mild skin lupus for 6 years , 3 weeks ago I came down with fever, this felt like a flu bug but no cold appeared, and for 3 days pain in my knees and then that went away , but the fever kept on every day , blood tests kept coming back no posisitve results for any thing, then my liver test showed inflamation, ( i had been put on generic zocor, for cholesterol 2 months ago) ruled out hepititis, the fever continued, the 2nd week my ankles swelled, more test,,, heart test ( echo) ok, waiting on kidney protien results, white cells showed up on the rise, fianally after 21 days the fever is residing the ankles went down, , i went to my rheumatologist, and he said immediately lupus flare , in part to the comp test was at 12, ( norm should be 15-35) i did show sed rate elevated in the beginning, this is all strange and I was so ill, my big question does fever come with lupus flare? I have never had a lupus flare, I still feel un well, my tummy feels bloated, during the fever i had no appitite, this is all so confusing, i just dont want them to jump to lupus and ignor that its something else like infection somewhere. they ran a huge amount of test,
i go back to rheum monday and he wants to do 1 week of predisone , please let me know if fever is part of lupus flare,, thanks, karen
I have had mild skin lupus for 6 years , 3 weeks ago I came down with fever, this felt like a flu bug but no cold appeared, and for 3 days pain in my knees and then that went away , but the fever kept on every day , blood tests kept coming back no posisitve results for any thing, then my liver test showed inflamation, ( i had been put on generic zocor, for cholesterol 2 months ago) ruled out hepititis, the fever continued, the 2nd week my ankles swelled, more test,,, heart test ( echo) ok, waiting on kidney protien results, white cells showed up on the rise, fianally after 21 days the fever is residing the ankles went down, , i went to my rheumatologist, and he said immediately lupus flare , in part to the comp test was at 12, ( norm should be 15-35) i did show sed rate elevated in the beginning, this is all strange and I was so ill, my big question does fever come with lupus flare? I have never had a lupus flare, I still feel un well, my tummy feels bloated, during the fever i had no appitite, this is all so confusing, i just dont want them to jump to lupus and ignor that its something else like infection somewhere. they ran a huge amount of test,
i go back to rheum monday and he wants to do 1 week of predisone , please let me know if fever is part of lupus flare,, thanks, karen