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[NoMercy]

Hello my love. I realise you won't probably see this til tomorrow, but I thought I'd post now while I think about it.

I've had at least 3 throat infections in the last 6 weeks. In the last few days, I've had my second cold this month which started in the throat and ended up on the chest. Today I woke up with a blistering sore throat again and my glands are swollen right up to my ears. I've had a slight rash on my face which has now disappeared, and a touch of bachache in the lower back, to the right. I've been feeling incredibly lethargic, on and off.

Last week I had a really bad fever/temperature which preceeded this most recent cold and I spent an entire 2 evenings throwing the bed covers off me.

Do you think this may be a recurring bout of EBV?

Thanks x x

[NoMercy]

Sherrard... my ex boyfriend's 3 year old daughter was investigated for Kawasaki Disease and she's definitely not Japanese (going by her curly blonde hair). She's 17 now, btw.

[sherrardk]

Hi NoM - I had turned 40 by then and the doctor was looking it up on Wikipedia!

[NoMercy]

Kawasaki is a rare disease. I don't think Rebekah was actually diagnosed with it - they just considered it a possibility.

[Hopkirk]

Sorry, but I had to laugh at Sherradk who, at her lowest point, thought that she was a gooner.

[jno]

lol Hopkirk, I didn't notice that

[Sqad]

NoM....just got in from the Airport.

I know your history well, so I will not go over it again.

Get the GP to do a spot test for GF.

If it is positive....then treat as you have dons before.

If negative then ask for an ENT referral, as those tonsils do need removing as they are no good to you at all.

[Scarlett]

Hi! Well I actually asked for the antibiotics. I know that they only treat bacterial infections, but I have had this before, and it turned into Pleurisy, and was in hospital for 2 weeks. When I start to cough up yellowy green stuff, I know it's a chest infection and therefore does need antibiotics. I tried dealing with it before using only homeopathy and the green stuff turned brown. Then I couldn't breathe in. So, hospital. I asked for antibiotics in order to try and avoid that! Am still really breathless, coughing violently and nasty lungs. Not sure what else one can do!