ok... my boyfriend is very sick, and doctors can't help us so far... so i'm asking if you all have had a similar experisnce or if the nurses and docters here might have some insight...
About 2 weeks ago he started having severe pain in his quad muscle. It started hurting at work one day, (he has a desk job, wasn't doing anything strenuous) and got worse. By the next day he was in tears and couldn't walk. The doctor quickly dismissed it as a strained muscle, and gave him some anti-inflamatories and muscle relaxers.
Now, 2 weeks later... he is still in a lot of pain, and has a severe headache, nausea, and keeps getting a very high temperature, chills, then he sweats cause he's so hot... So last night he went to the emergency room because his heartbeat was up to 120+.
They tested for menengitis, hepatitis, malaria, and some other things... The only abnormal thing in his blood was an extremely high whitecell count. Also, there were excess liver enzymes (which could be from the anti-inflamatories he was taking).
So, they discharged hi frmo the ER, saying there was nothing they could do cause they didn't know WHY his white blood cell count was so high. He is still in a LOT of pain and has a severe fever. Also, he has been getting abcesses in his groin area for the past month... wuite a few small ones, and one large one.
SO... could his muscle be infected somehow, and be causeing all the other probelms including the abcesses? We are just at a loss right now, and don't know what to do....
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-L
About 2 weeks ago he started having severe pain in his quad muscle. It started hurting at work one day, (he has a desk job, wasn't doing anything strenuous) and got worse. By the next day he was in tears and couldn't walk. The doctor quickly dismissed it as a strained muscle, and gave him some anti-inflamatories and muscle relaxers.
Now, 2 weeks later... he is still in a lot of pain, and has a severe headache, nausea, and keeps getting a very high temperature, chills, then he sweats cause he's so hot... So last night he went to the emergency room because his heartbeat was up to 120+.
They tested for menengitis, hepatitis, malaria, and some other things... The only abnormal thing in his blood was an extremely high whitecell count. Also, there were excess liver enzymes (which could be from the anti-inflamatories he was taking).
So, they discharged hi frmo the ER, saying there was nothing they could do cause they didn't know WHY his white blood cell count was so high. He is still in a LOT of pain and has a severe fever. Also, he has been getting abcesses in his groin area for the past month... wuite a few small ones, and one large one.
SO... could his muscle be infected somehow, and be causeing all the other probelms including the abcesses? We are just at a loss right now, and don't know what to do....
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-L