Hey, I'm new to this forum and website, so
please forgive me if this isn't where I'm
supposed to be posting this.
Anyway......
Starting about two years ago now, I've
been consistantly, in a word, sick. It
began, I admit, after a night of
unprotected sex with a girl. I at first
thought it was some sort of sexually
transmitted disease, but, several weeks
after the onset of initial symptoms, which
included intense fatigue, sore throat and
mild naseua (spelling?), I got a Correct
Blood Count test which came back negative,
and the immediacy of the onset of the
symptoms themselves (the morning after the
encounter) led me to believe it was just
freak coincidence.
Since then I regularly fall ill, usually
for 2 days to a week at a time, with,
usually, about a week following that of
decent health. My consistant / chronic
symptoms are: mild sore throat, consistant
headache concentrated near and over the
eyes, inflamed lymphnodes, general
soreness on the left side of my body, and,
sometimes, naseua (though I rarely
actually vomit, if that makes sense).
Every time I go to the doctor, which,
frankly, I don't often do anymore because
I've become frustrated, I'm either told,
"oh, it's just [random viral infection
x]", or, "quit smoking". I smoke about a
pack of cigarettes a day.
And, something else I've noticed lately,
at the onset of symptoms, my urine turns a
very cloudy, pale yellow color.
I'm so confused, I don't even know where
to begin to tell my physician to start
looking--I mean, how do you say,
"everywhere hurts"?
Any ideas as to how I should proceed?
I know this is extremely general, and
probably not helpful in the least, but any
guidance, advice, guesses, or questions
would be so greatly appreciated, you can't
even understand...
oh, and by the way, the initial consensus
was that I was having severe allergic
reactions, and I am currently taking 10mg
of singulair a day, and also am using a
nasal steroid spray, but after taking a
pin-prick allergy test, I found that my
body's allergy levels are, essentially,
normal.
