Having one of those shitty nights where I my head feels hot and I feel fluish, tired and uncoordinated. I wish I knew what caused this.
Happens often?
Yeah, about every week or two on average, and it seems to be more likely to happen if I've been working hard on something.
How high is your temperature, if you take it during an episode?
Do you have a rash or swollen lymph nodes?
37.0 - 37.1C, oral. It's just my forehead, temples, eye sockets and neck that feel hot; the rest of me seems to be unaffected. If it gets particularly bad, I sometimes use a cold compress around my neck, which seems to help a bit. I don't get a rash or swollen lymph nodes with it.
I saw a television show called Mystery Diagnosis, which had a woman who reminded me of you. She had a recurrent fluish feeling, exhaustion, and lack of coordination to begin with, but I'm pretty sure she spiked fevers along with these symptoms. The exhaustion was so bad that it got to the point that she couldn't work as a nurse anymore. Then she developed swollen lymph nodes and then a mass in her spleen, so she had her spleen removed and the lymph nodes biopsied. Then I think she developed symptoms of arthritis like swollen fingers, and she was finally diagnosed with a form of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis called Adult Onset Still's Disease. I can't remember whether she developed a rash or not. I read on the Still's Disease website that the recurrent spiking fevers happen in 100% of the people who have Still's Disease, so that excludes you from this diagnosis anyway.