Fevers, Night Sweats Or Lymph Nodes???

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Hi all. I have a question. Has anybody ever heard of low grade fevers or night sweats or swollen lymph nodes due to any type of spine problem???
I have back problems but have been trying to rule out cancer and no one took an X-ray of my neck.
I also have twitching muscles all over my body 24/7, my feet feel like cement blocks, feel flusih most of the time, dizziness, memory loss. All over pain.
The list goes on.
I have been tested for everything. To just find out I have a caollapsed disc and another ready to go and a collapsed disc in my neck.
I am curious if any of these other symptoms could be due to that.
I have been dx with fibro, chronic fatigue syndrome, thyroid disease and mitral valve prolapse.
But now this about my back.
ANY THOUGHTS ON THIS WOULD BE APPRECIATED!!!!!!!

Thank you
 
Night sweats and hot flashes are sometimes associated with the stronger pain meRAB. I had those when I was on high doses of Percocet, but not with the Vicodin.

Maybe someone else will have other suggestions.

I hope you get the help you need.

Emily
 
Thanks for your reply. I can take as many opinions as I can get. You never know what you might sturable on.
But the fevers, night sweats and lymph nodes started way before I was on any pain meRAB. Or any meRAB.
Actually I haven't had a low grade fever in a couple of weeks. But it has come and gone in the last 3 yrs. When I really am in a flare I can bet money on it being 99.3-100.7.
I haven't had a night sweats in a month . Before it was nightly and soooo bad. But they ruled out premenapause with blood work.
Now my spine....... I still wish someone out there knew any relation btwn nodes and back probs.
Oh well the search is never ending!!!!!!!
 
check out lyme disease. this board has a lyme disease section.

Even if you have had a negative test, you may still have it. the tests are not accurate at all. I had it for 15 years and the doctors kept telling me my tests were negative, and I did not have it. When I got copies and looked at it myself, I found out the results said "equivocal"

there are also many other co-infections that ticks and other bugs carry that make people chronically sick. I tested positive to ehrlichia, rocky mountain spotted fever, and was clinically diagnosed with bartonella and babesia. None of those show up on the standard lyme test.

many of your symptoms sound like lyme.

Another thing to look into is chiari. chiari malformation causes many of the same symptoms.

but with the swollen lymph nodes and flu-like symptoms points more toward lyme and co-infections
 
Wow! Thanks for your reply. I never gave lyme disease a thought b/c I live in Southern Ca. And haven't left the state in so many years. Can you get lyme out here? I'll study it.
I have studied everything else since I got sick.
I am bummed no one had these symptoms with back problems. It would have solved everything. I guess I have a multi faceted problem here!
Thnaks for your help!:angel:
 
Hi, there can be reasons for a relationship between spine issues and fevers, etc..someone else mentioned Lyme Disease, but there are other types of ticks around the country that can cause other tick-borne illnesses, which can cause fevers. Also there are other kinRAB of infections that can affect the spine..but I can't say if all your symptoms have anything to do with your spine problems. They could be totally seperate issues.

I personally got a bad flare up last summer, after my esi's wore off. I had terrible achiness in my entire spine, stiffness (although I still have these), pains, and other symptoms I'd never had before. I also had a low-grade fever and I think I even came here to ask sort of the same thing as you. Oh, I also got rashes on my elbows and ankles, which I never had before. I did not bother to have it fully investigated, though. I did tell my rheum about all of it at a visit for something else, but he seemed non-chalant about it all. He did send me for blood tests, but many of them were to check things related to muscle cramping and spasming. So I still wonder what that flare was all about. I do have Lupus, but that doesn't involve the spine, my spine is a seperate issue.

If you have fever, sweats, and swollen lymph nodes, that usually points to some sort of infection, though. You might want to try a different doctor for another opinion....
 
i found this map

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/tickmap.htm

all of california has a different type of tick than the east, but that makes matters even worse because it night be one that doesnt show up on standard tests. You need to go to a LLMD to be evaluated and diagnosed based on risk factors in your area, symptoms, and tests.

it can really be a nightmare if it goes undiagosed for a long time.
 
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