Hello, I am 62 years old. 210 lbs. Female, White. Went to my Dr. on Wed., June 3rd with complaints of severe fatigue, flu like aches, dizziness upon feet, by this time my symptoms had started Sat., May 30th. I have been in bed from Sat. May 30th to Thurs., June 4th.
I have never been sick in bed like this. The fatigue and aches were almost unbearable. In the last 2 months, I have been working very hard to lose weight., lost 12 lbs since April 1st. I am sure I wasn't probably eating the best things, healthwise. Maybe I just overdid it. The following medicines are what I am taking. Bisoprolol 10-6.25 mg, Protonix, 40 mg, Losartan 50 mg, 1m coated baby aspirin. I was taking Pravastatin, 40 mg, but Dr. took me off when I came in with these symptoms.
My Dr. still wants to run more blood work to test me for Iron defiencey, hepatitus A & B. I wonder if I should be tested for Lupus? As of today, I no longer have the aches (a couple of nights ago, I had a terrible headache and it seems like I broke a sweat and was just drenched and after that I started to feel better. I never noticed I had a fever, but every late afternoon, I would get chilled and feel like my head, ears had fever. That would go on for about an hour. All I took during these whole 5 days was over the counter ibuprofen.
From what I was told by my blood work taken, is that I have elevated liver levels, low iron levels, low red blood or maybe it is high red blood?
I would just like a 2nd opinion of what another Dr. thinks about this. Currently, the only thing I notice is that I am having night sweats now, from my chest area up around neck. This is all I have for now.
RDW
6/4/2015
14.4 %
Normal Range 11.0 to 15.0
MCHC
6/4/2015
33 g/dL
Normal Range 32.0 to 36.0
MCH
6/4/2015
28.5 pg
Normal Range 27.0 to 33.0
MCV
6/4/2015
86.3 fL
Normal Range 80.0 to 100.0
Hematocrit
6/4/2015
45.1 %
Normal Range 35.0 to 45.0
Hemoglobin
6/4/2015
14.9 g/dL
Normal Range 11.7 to 15.5
RBC
6/4/2015
5.23 Million/uL
Normal Range 3.80 to 5.10
WBC
6/4/2015
4.9 Thousand/uL
Normal Range 3.8 to 10.8
Iron/TIBC 6/3/2015 (3 items)
checkmark
Iron Saturation
6/5/2015
9 % (calc)
Normal Range 11 to 50
Iron, Total
6/5/2015
25 mcg/dL
Normal Range 45 to 160
TIBC
6/5/2015
291 mcg/dL
Normal Range 250 to 450
Jacqueline
posted on
Tue, 9 Jun 2015