fever for 2 1/2 yrs., looking for answers/help

[critterjulie]

have searched online many hours for someone with symptoms like mine.  I have been running a low grade (100.5 at the highest) for 2 1/2 years.  It all started when I fell and hit my head HARD on ice.  I have been to my PC doc, 2 other MD, Endocrinologist, Infectious disease doc, Infectious disease dept. at Washington Univ. in St. Louis.  I have had a bone marrow biopsy, tons of blood work, MRI of my brain,chest cat scan, tested for Mono, Cat scratch fever, Lyme disease (which I am still not convinced couldn't be my problem, especially Brucelliosis). My MD has given up on me, he had diagnosed me with Fever of Unknown Origin and stopped trying to figure it out.  The last appt. I had he told me that I don't have FUO and that all I need is some Ritalin.  Needless to say I need a new doc.

My symptoms have been..fatigue (especially after any exercise-it takes me 2-3 days to recover from a family camping trip), fever that goes up slowly during the day, my fever has went away 2x for about a month each time, weight loss 25# that I didn't need to loose, unrestful sleep, insomnia, poor appetite, weakness, dizzyness, mental fog, poor memory, and anxiety.

The only things all of the medical testing showed were elevated WBC but not every time checked,  low RBC, low aldosterone (now taking Hydrocortisone), 2 small lung nodules, and a small brain lesion that the Neurologist wasn't concerned about.  

[doctornee medical]

Hi
Thanks for writing to the forum!
A slight rise of temperature is expected with anemia and fatigue. Please follow up with an endocrine specialist regarding the low aldosterone level. Also a chest specialist needs to look into the lung nodules. The lump in the brain I cannot comment on without seeing, hence please consult another neurologist with your report.
Unintentional and unexplained weight loss of this magnitude is definitely not good. There are many causes like worms in stool, depression, anorexia nervosa, AIDS, cancers especially colon cancers, drug abuse, infections and loss of appetite. Loss of appetite can again be due to certain medications, drug abuse, depression, AIDS, acute and chronic infections, cancers and hypothyroidism. Either you do not eat well or there is increased metabolism as in hyperthyroid states, HIV, cancer etc. Poor absorption as in irritable bowel syndromes and malabsorption syndromes too is possible. Malabsorptin syndromes are seen in intestinal tuberculosis, HIV, tropical sprue, parasites in stool and Whipple’s Disease.
I have enumerated the possibilities that come to my mind right now. Hope this helps. Please consult your gastroenterologist. Maybe your problem is due to some gut pathology.
Hope this helps. It is difficult to comment beyond this at this stage. Please let me know if there is any thing else and do keep me posted. Take care!