I am a long suffering psoriasis sufferer coupled with arthritis. Most of the time I am good and ontop of the condition.

Beginning of this year i had a very long bought of nausea vomiting and gagging, it lasted a complete month i felt very ill, tests came back normal so no food poisoning or any real reason to why this happened, it wasnt till the end of the 4th week that a stool sample was taken and during that time I had lost nearly a stone. I recovered from that.

I have had very persistent itchy scalp alsmost driving me crazy at times. and recently a sore developed on my year which was crusting and weeping, also it was inside my nose and a rash and clusters of red spots developed along side the crease lines either side of my face which looked in my view unsightly. I work in a GUM clinic and my consultant there took a couple of swabs which showed a staphyloccocal aureaus infection. I had a week course of flucoxacillin which looked like it had worked, however afer 4 days wham it was back, and is still there now. The doctor gave me two topical creams naseptin and mucoban which had done absolutely nothing to help.

I have constantly been back and forth to my GPs to the point of distress with all this this year and the visit before last i asked her to do some blood tests to rule out lupus or suchlike.
My last visit she told me my blood tests were lovely, and mentioned that my white cell count was 1, she then gave me two anti biotics flucoxacillin and Erythromycin which I am currently on.

On speaking to my doctor at work, she feels that a WBC of 1 is very low and merits further investigation, but with the blaze attitude fo my GP I am wondering if It is worth pursuing, because im beginning to feel like a hypochondriac even though i cleary have a history of symptoms.

Can you based on what im telling you tell me if it is worth me looking into this further and getting a second opinion

Kind regards

Missychick