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I posted this in another section already. One more try for a few more responses. Thanks!

I have been in the ER three times in the past 6 days. The initial thought was meningitis, but after a clear spinal tap I was sent home. I have since returned for extreme headaches twice, finally treated with a blood patch last night.

current symptoms:
hot flashes
low grade fever
nausea
lack of appetite
headaches (self-treated by 400 mg of caffeine as needed and up to 800 mg ibupofen--afraid they will be as extreme as before--trying to prevent)
fatigue
stiff neck (not severe though)
extreme back pain (from epidural)
recently finished an antibiotic for a sinus infection (2 days before initial ER visit)
BP was 103/36 yesterday
Pulse was 47
moderate sensitivity to light and noise
irritablity
weight 110
height 5'9"

Initial symptoms included:
chills
fever
sensitivity to light and noise
nausea with severe vomiting

Likely to call doc in the morning.

2007-03-12 17:02:59 · 2 answers · asked by courage78 4 in Health Diseases & Conditions Other - Diseases

2 answers

Sounds like migraine headaches and a sinus infection at the same time to me, Just because you took meds for the sinus infection does not mean it too care of it. You can have both at the same time. I spent 4 hours in urgent care once with a massive migraine and severe sinus infection at the same time. I was taking antibitiotics for the sinus infection at the time this all happened.

2007-03-12 17:12:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If you are still having the headaches after the blood patch, either it was not a spinal headache, or the blood patch did not work (that happens sometimes). The clue to this would be if the headaches are worse when standing and better when lying down. You would probably want to speak to an anesthesiologist (preferably the one who did the blood patch) about the headache and also about the extreme back pain (and if you were taking ibuprofen before you got the blood patch, be sure to mention that).

It sounds like a very complicated situation, and you should definitely call your doctor. I hope he/she can figure out what is going on and I hope you feel better soon.

2007-03-12 19:44:54 · answer #2 · answered by vegan 5 · 0 0

Ok sounds wierd but in Nov I had a measles mumps and rubella shot, woke up the next am with same symptoms as you, had spinal, and leak and patch, still sick. Finally two weeks later and several ER visits later, I was told I had mumps, a result that should not of happened from the shots, (I was in nursing school thats why I had to get shots) but not only did I have mumps, I developed an infected and incarcerated hernia. The infection was slowly kicking my butt thats why I had all the symptoms but is was slow to show thats why no diagnosis, when they finally did surgery and clipped into infection I went into septic shock and they nearly lost me several times according to my Dr. I woke up in ICU and I was pissed, I had begged and begged for help before it got bad and Dr.'s kept ignoring me thinking I was a hypochondriac. Case in point, be your own advocate, go back to Dr. demand them to test for everything and keep you until they know what is wrong. Just because the have a medical degree doesn't mean they know you better then you know yourself. I wish I would of been more demanding because in the long run I ended up having to fight for my life in ICU and that was tough. Good luck.

2007-03-12 17:20:10 · answer #3 · answered by Shyler 4 · 0 0

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