May 06 2009
Fever
A couple of days before I left The Netherlands, I’ve got fever. Well, kind of, nothing serious. A bit higher temperature and nothing else. But then just a day or two before I took off to Finland, it started to hurt. So I called GGD Kennemerland to ask them if it had anything to do with vaccines I had. They said: “It’s impossible, you should call your home doctor!”
“Impossible my a$$… everything is possible!”
So I did call my home doctor and made an appointment. She didn’t like what she saw and heard. So she sent me to the hospital to examine my blood at once. That was Friday afternoon, the day before I left. I did that all on the same day (yes, also the party ;-)). Only the medical blood results would be sent to me by mail, while I would be in Finland.
So, I’ve got them yesterday (here in Finland indeed), sent by my doctor.
The blood results
BSE somewhat high, Leukocytes high and CRP is extremely high.
She also suggested I should visit the doctor here in Helsinki, and I did. Today I was examined by doctor Wallinhemo. Doctor Wallinhemo didn’t like what he saw and heard either. Especially after I told him that next Saturday I was going to India. He asked me if I’ve recently done a HIV/Aids test. I said I did (Big Girl and me did all major “sexual transmitted diseases” tests, including a HIV test, half year ago - and we were both clean…)
Antibiotics and painkillers
He insisted to make a Thorax Röntgen picture of my body (my lungs and heart were apparently clean and in fairly good condition he said), so he finally prescribed me antibiotics + some anti rheumatic painkillers.
Consultation + thorax picture + medications… bling, bling = 200 euro!
In the meantime, during the fever nights, I was taken care by Linda’s cat “Batman” a couple of nights, who would lay on my chest and spin (people say it’s healing). Batman is such a cute animal. Almost human!
He didn’t help me beat my fever, but he did make me feel better.
Great cat! Super cat, well eughmm…… Batman-cat!
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| Me with Linda’s cat Batman. |
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| Antibiotics medications & painkillers. |
No idea what I was hit with (doctors don’t know it either so far, that’s why I’ve got wide spectrum - all killing - antibiotics…), but it caused fever every day by now, made my bed wet by sweat each morning and let my body hurt as hell. :-(
So far so good. Whaha… who cares. Tomorrow I’ll have my third shoot in Finland, the second one in Helsinki.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Look for CRP images they are colourful at least!!
The C-reactive protein (English: C-reactive protein), usually abbreviated to CRP, is a so-called acute phase protein. CRP is produced by the liver and delivered into the bloodstream. After the formation of inflammation, the amount of CRP in the body within a few hours. This CRP is valuable for determining the presence of inflammation or the effects of medical treatment on the inflammatory process. The increase in CRP is often seen before clinical symptoms of inflammation by the patient are observed. CRP is not specific enough to the cause of the inflammation to demonstrate, but it is a signal molecule that indicates that additional medical examination is required.
Besides the usual CRP determination is also an ultra-sensitive CRP determination on the market, hs-CRP, which showed very low inflammatory response may be. Several recent studies have shown that the hs-CRP, especially when combined with the determined total cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol, a strong predictor of future coronary artery disease in apparently healthy people. This research is performed because of suspected that low, chronic inflammation plays an important role in the process of atherosclerosis.
Before CRP was used, was using the sedimentation (sedimentation of the erythrocytes or BSE), for the detection of inflammation. At the beginning of a disease process may be several days before an increase in BSE occurs. This changes the sedimentation much slower than the CRP, that in six to eight hours after start of ignition is increased. Also falling out of the BSE after the disease process much slower than the CRP. Furthermore, the sedimentation also depends on inter alia gender, age, pregnancy, drug use, hematocrit and morphology of red blood cells. All these factors, the sedimentation in the acute stage of infection of less diagnostic value become.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:36 am
@LoVek, they are colorful indeed.
…. almost as colorful as make-up. :p
“Furthermore, the sedimentation also depends on inter alia gender, age, pregnancy, drug use, hematocrit and morphology of red blood cells. All these factors, the sedimentation in the acute stage of infection of less diagnostic value become.”
Do you think I’d be better off if I start using drugs - or become pregnant even?
May 7th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Take the only good one:
http://tr.youtube.com/watch?v=sRh_B6L1t3c&feature=PlayList&p=4B3340BB98DC17AF&index=5
others just once a week :):)
May 7th, 2009 at 11:05 am
And what about pregnancy?
May 7th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Wat balen zeg dat je zo ziek was/bent.
Beterschap!!!!
May 7th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Denk om de vitamientjes Alex! Scheelt de helft!!! :))