Your wife has a complex combination of signs and symptoms, suggestive of a multi-system disease. I assume that, "For about 3 to 4 months during the year she gets sick." means a total of 3 to 4 months and not a recurrently seasonal illness. The butterfly rash is typical of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Bone pain is a symptom associated with a number of metabolic disorders, including overactive parathyroid glands. These 2 diseases, hyperparathyroidism and SLE have been described as occurring together. To learn more please read our SLE information by copying and pasting this address
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Bottom line is that your wife's illness is a difficult diagnostic problem and not surprisingly beyond the expertise of general practice physicians. The best advice we can give is that you arrange for your wife to be evaluated at one of a number of renowned medical centers such as the Mayo Clinic or by the superb rheumatologists at National Jewish Health. We appreciate the logistics involved but it would be well worth it to you and your wife to be evaluated by expert physicians, capable of making a definitive diagnosis and treatment plan that could spare her the misery you describe. To start the process to schedule an evaluation at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado please access our online patient pre-registration form by copying and pasting this address
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Ummmmm Fiji,Great, My feeling is you are correct in your assumption of Allergys,Rashes and Runny nose are symptoms of Allergy, also.Get her to make some notes of what she is doing, eaten ,prior to the incidents check the stuff you spray around if you spray Bug spray I dont know your climate ,do you get Bugs in the Winter is there any specific virus around then, the search engine may help, allergys are hard to track,it means eliminating things one at a time, then re introducing them.By Bone pains you mean she aches like Flu, also a symptom.The Wind here causes us to get a lot of Virus"s but its the desert winds here that blow the desert dust on us and its not too good, the Native Indians here called them Devil Winds we call them Santa Anna Winds.
Thank you for your comments. Fiji is usually quite hot most times during the year. However between May and August our whether changes some in that the temp gets cooler. You can say this is our winter as the temp drops. During this period the winds ususally change direction and the usual winds comming from the sea changes to inward winds which come from the mountains. This is the period that her health gets bad. It appears that the winds blowing from the mountains carry lots of pollen etc. We know that she definetly suffers from alcohol related alergies because she reacts to it almost immideatly. Any way will try recording what she eats etc.