Off & On Low Fevers

[Sandpuff]

This morning I was folding laundry and started to feel flush and weak so I took my temperature and it was 99.9. I took it with an ear thermometer and a regular thermometer just to make sure the reading was right.

This has been happening a lot and I know your temp fluctuates some throughout the day but this seems a bit much since my normal temp is around 97.8.

The last week or so I've felt great and I have been monitoring my temp and I've never seen it go above 98.3 or so on my good days.

My symptoms right now are fatigue, swollen glands, low fever (if what I described above is considered fever), chest pain off & on. Past symptoms are spinal myoclonus, a feeling of weakness or heaviness in my right leg, twitches which still happen some.

Also, yesterday I bumped my funny bone and it made my hand burn and go completely numb on the top for about 3 minutes. Is that normal?

Thanks!

[Lara]

Hi Sandpuff, nice to meet you.
Gosh, there are so many different reasons a person might get a low grade fever. The list is very long.

You mention feeling flushed and weak, fatigue, swollen glands, low fever (if what I described above is considered fever), chest pain off & on.

If you've got swollen glands, then there is something going on. You ever had Glandular Fever/Epstein Barr Virus? Some of the other things could be a sign of many things, like feeling flushed and weak and tired. You don't have diabetes? You're not dehydrated???

Did you ever have Rheumatic Fever in your childhood? Been tested for a GABHS infection?? (strep.)

You don't have a tooth abcess or broken tooth that's been left untreated???

Of all those things you mention it's the chest pain in conjuction that would bother me. What's your doctor saying about all this?

Regarding hitting your elbow and having numbness and burning sensation... well, it sounds as if you hit your "funny bone" which isn't always so funny. The funny bone isn't actually a bone, it's the Ulnar Nerve. I have a trapped ulnar nerve so I get that feeling of numbness and burning all the time. If it went away in 3 minutes then that is good. If it comes back and persists, please mention that to your doctor.

Low grade fever is something that is very common with so many conditions that it would be impossible for anyone except a Doctor who knows you and has seen any blood results or physical symptoms to really suggest a specific problem. I could list about 100 things just here and now, but that would be foolish of me.

take care there, and I hope you get some answers from your doctor soon.