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Any Ideas? At my wits end

I've been feeling lousy since at least December '09. At the beginning of December I had a sinus infection that turned in to a scary peri-orbital cellulitis landed me in the hospital. Since then I've been exhausted, run down and sick off and on and running low grade fevers. It took about a month after the hospital for my white counts to get to normal again. Since then I've had another sinus infection that was confirmed.Still feeling lousy and went to see several specialists. My white counts  and platelets have been consistently high. I've been treated for suspected sinus infection once and had several ct scans of the sinuses. I've been on and off of antibiotics and it seems my counts go to normal after antibiotics only to rise again within a week or 2.  

Last weekend my low grade fever turned into a 102 temp, which sent me back to my internist.  We  ruled out sinus as the cause of high white counts and are now looking at other things. My counts have been all over the place.  Monday at the internist's my white count was elevated, but by Tuesday when I went to see an infectious disease specialist they had returned to normal range.  Monday's blood  showed a very low TSH of .06 which is a new for me. I haven't had my TSH tested in at least a year. She ordered the test and did an EKG because I had a very high heart rate, was "very agitated", have been complaining of stomach issues for a while and was not "myself" to her. My internist doesn't think this is the reason for the high white counts and the fevers but referred me to an endocrinologist and I had an appointment  Friday morning. She also ordered additional thyroid tests that seemed to rule out Grave's disease.
Went to the endo on Friday. He ran a bunch more bloodwork. I went in this morning to return a 24-hour urine collection and took a quick look at the labs that are back. My White Blood count is back up to 15.3, poly's are high as well as platelets. This is starting to drive me a little crazy. Any ideas?
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642304 tn?1242606724
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Unfortunately, blood cultures will not detect the types of infections I was referring to, such as Mycoplasma, Chlamydia pn., Borrelia, etc.  Usually these require very sensitive serology and molecular tests such as PCR.  You can find more information on our website, www.immed.org
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One more thing... Is this something an infectious disease specialist should be familiar with?
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What type of testing is done for this? I've had blood cultures done. Still waiting for final results but so far 3 sets haven't shown anything. Thank you!
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642304 tn?1242606724
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Your symptoms sound a lot like a sinus infection that became systemic, resulting in additional signs/symptoms.  The course of Abx that you were on was likely not long enough or perhaps not even the correct Abx for your infection.  Often these types of infections slowly become systemic if not treated properly.  I can tell you that quite of few veterans had this initial symptom but since they were inadequately treated, the infection slowly spread.  This would explain the other problems that you developed, especially the thyroid and other problems.  In the case of the veterans, we found that they had systemic Mycoplasma infections, but that could or could not be the culprit there.  Once they were placed on long-term Abx like doxycycline, their systemic symptoms slowly abated, along with their sinus problems.
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