Daily temperatures from 99.5 to 101.5 degrees

[KristineJill]

My wife has lupus. Presently it is diagnosed as having a "low level of activity." She is also diagnosed as having severe anxiety disorder. A result of lupus and accompanying medications. She was on medication for both lupus and anxiety but she was given an antibiotic for what was thought pneumonia, but after taking this antibiotic she felt energy depleted and had to stop taking her meds for lupus and anxiety. She is presently weak and running daily temperatures 99.5 to 101.5 even after she took the full antibiotic treatment. She takes Tylenol to break the temp and it is working. I know it could be an infection but she is too weak to have blood drawn. What can I do for her daily temps until she gets stronger. She doesn't want to eat much at all and I feel helpless at stopping these daily high temperatures.
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[Robren911]

You may actually have lupus.  My DR. calls chronic fatigue a junk diagnosis.  You're tired all the time they don't know why but this way they can bill your insurance.  Try drinking some cranberry juice.  The cran pomogranite sounds bad but the pom cuts the acidity of normal cranberry juice.   I was also diagnosed with Fibromyalgia.  Another junk diagnosis, we don't know why but you have pain.  The AMA can't even agree if it's nerve pain, muscular skeletal or both.  I've had systemic lupus for 14 years.  As a man and your wife as well will both need to hydrate like crazy.  Keep your kidneys flushed.  And the top specialist at Duke told me to go the route of pain medication when my flares got too bad, as opposed to immuno blockers.  He asked if I'd rather have lupus, take cancer strength pain meds or have lupus and cancer and take cancer strength pain meds.  Also the ONLY reliable blood test for lupus is a high ANA.  The panels aren't proven or reliable.  But you certainly seem to have some of the other diagnostic criteria.  Hydrate, Pain Meds over Immunotherapy drugs, Hydrate.  Flush your liver once or twice a year with a cycle of over the counter Milk Thistle.  And if you can live somewhere with a reasonably stable climate.  The fewer changes in weather be it rain, cold front or less painfully a heatwave try some where relatively warm year round with not a lot of rain.  I hope this helps, het your ANA tested it's a blood test.  start hydrating and flushing your kidneys.  While women make up 85% of people with lupus, men account for 90% of lupus related deaths.  14 years and I've never been on dialisys.  See I can't even spell it.  I spent the summer on a little island in central Florida and took great care of myself and for the first time in 14 years I had a normal ANA test.  Also unheard of.  This winter in Houston my ANA is of course high but only slightly.  Hydrate.  Put up a firewall around your kidney's especially but also your wife's.  That's usually the first organ lupus tries to attack.

[Penjaz]

Hi so sorry for your wife, Lupus is hard. I wanted to share with you that I have had many of these symptoms. I am on antidepressants and know I need them. The one thing I mostly want to share is I was getting UTI infections o Dr and over. My Doc put me on a maintenance antibiotic instead of a full one time treatment. So I just take a low dose one pill a day. I have not had another infection since and I feel so much better! I wonder if this might help your wife. I really think she needs to be on her Lupus meds with an antidepressant for anxiety. I have been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,miserable too. You might want to read about it,very similar in a lot of your wife's symptoms. I really wish the best for her. Good luck. Penjaz