As you may know about my different symptoms and the fevers I had wrote about, here is an update and I still didn't find any answers out.
I'm very confused about fevers in Lupus people. I know you get fevers but sometimes do you get them everyday for awhile or is it just a sporadic thing. My rheumy's office called me back about the fever questions. This is what the nurse said. You don't get fevers like that with Lupus. Has anyone found out any differently?
I have CFS and my specialist told me that some people with CFS get fevers and it means their body is trying to fight it. Now get a load of this--the nurse slipped up. She told me he said you don't get fevers like that with lupus. I said the doctor never told me that I had lupus for definite because he wasn't sure. She said I meant to say connective tissue disease. I asked her if CFS was a connective tissue disease and she said no and then she told me he doesn't deal with CFS. So he is saying I have lupus.
They also said he could run two blood cultures to see if there's infection but he said my white count is really low. So in other words, I am not doing it because why bother.
Can anyone help me to make some light of this?
CindyLou
I'm very confused about fevers in Lupus people. I know you get fevers but sometimes do you get them everyday for awhile or is it just a sporadic thing. My rheumy's office called me back about the fever questions. This is what the nurse said. You don't get fevers like that with Lupus. Has anyone found out any differently?
I have CFS and my specialist told me that some people with CFS get fevers and it means their body is trying to fight it. Now get a load of this--the nurse slipped up. She told me he said you don't get fevers like that with lupus. I said the doctor never told me that I had lupus for definite because he wasn't sure. She said I meant to say connective tissue disease. I asked her if CFS was a connective tissue disease and she said no and then she told me he doesn't deal with CFS. So he is saying I have lupus.
They also said he could run two blood cultures to see if there's infection but he said my white count is really low. So in other words, I am not doing it because why bother.
Can anyone help me to make some light of this?
CindyLou