Dear Sir or Madam, A severe flu-like infection, accompanied by fever, has forced me to bed rest for the past four days due to fatigue and weakness, only interrupted by daily trips to the toilet. I remember that under similar conditions in the hospi...
Hello Mrs. Gehring, I hope you are still doing well, and I understand that the current situation is already causing enough worries, but I have a quick question... I had mentioned to you recently about my persistent cough, which has not gone away af...
Hello, I have been suffering from a cough for 14 days and at the beginning I even had a fever of almost 40 degrees for three days. Yesterday I went to the doctor again because my breathing is not improving. I am now supposed to take Serroflo in the m...
Hello, I have had a strong cough for 11 days, during the first 4 days I also had a fever of almost 40 degrees. I am still sick until tomorrow, the cough just won't go away, I have pain in my ribs and chest and wheeze slightly. I am totally exhausted ...
Hello, yesterday morning it started with mild headaches and a scratchy throat, then at night I started coughing, my nose got blocked, and I had a fever of 39 degrees. The doctor told me to let the fever run its course, drink a lot, sweat it out, and ...
Hello again Mrs. Gehring, unfortunately I have to ask something again now, as my skin condition is still not improving properly. By now I have to say that the redness is not developing quite like it did back then and if you google drug rash it would ...
I was bitten by a tick in an FSME risk area (Winterthur, Switzerland) 11 days ago, and I am not vaccinated against FSME. Since then, I have been worried that I may have been infected with FSME. I have read that the disease progresses in two phases - ...
Good day, I was diagnosed with mild gastritis type C of the antrum mucosa with small focus intestinal metaplasia, HP-negative, and minimal chronic inactive corpus gastritis, HP-negative, as well as mild non-erosive reflux esophagitis without evidenc...
According to the hospital, I am suffering from a viral infection (suddenly got chills and nausea on Tuesday) and went to the emergency room with a fever of 39.5, where they admitted me. Blood tests showed nothing unusual. I was treated with paracetam...
For about 5 weeks I have had a cold (runny nose, mucus from nose and/or mouth, cough, sore throat, swollen tonsils, weakness - but NO fever!). It is sometimes better, sometimes worse, but never really bad (= bedridden) or completely gone (= 100% fit...
I took the antibiotic "Clindamycin 600mg 1-0-1" prescribed by my general practitioner for 6 days until 19.06. (Tuesday) after a brake bite resulting in a swollen foot with fever and nausea. Now, since yesterday (Friday, 22.06.), I have noticed while...
Hello, the following background information: About 3 weeks ago, I had a severe cold which led to a middle ear infection. The middle ear infection then resulted in tinnitus, which was treated with Prednisolone (in addition to antibiotics). The follo...
Hello Mrs. Gehring, unfortunately I have to contact you again regarding my lupus. The fear may have decreased minimally, but it still persists. I want to write down my symptoms again, some have appeared, some have disappeared. First of all, I would l...
Hello, unfortunately I am experiencing anxiety again (Lupus, male 24)! I actually thought that the symptoms were overcome, muscles and joints are feeling better (although still experiencing occasional overuse pain), hot flashes have not occurred for ...
Hello, unfortunately I have to ask another question now, but hopefully this will be the last one! I noticed a few more small things and I actually think it must be related to lupus, but the fear of acute myeloid leukemia still haunts me... First of a...
Hello Dr. Gehring. After a few months, I am contacting you again (male, 24 years old, Lupus patient). I am feeling as usual, but unfortunately I have had a sore throat for the past 5-6 days. Strangely, it seems to get better in the mornings. Today, I...
Good evening, tomorrow morning my son (4.8 years old) is scheduled to have grommets inserted and his tonsils removed. Two days ago, he developed a rash on his face and arms after complaining of stomach pain, and he was tired and weak but without a fe...
For 8 days urinary tract infection (female, 50 years old). Urinary tract infection several times a year without apparent cause. Urine test strip this morning showed Nitrite +++, Leukocytes 0 (with slightly cloudy urine), Erythrocytes 0, Glucose 0, Pr...
In June 2013, I had infectious mononucleosis (Pfeiffer's glandular fever). Since then, my lymph nodes in my neck have not fully gone back to normal and are still palpable. I have a lymph node on the right and left side, they are movable. There is als...
Hello, I have been struggling with the following problems for almost a year now: quick exhaustion, severe fatigue, a pulling sensation on the left side of my neck, night sweats, hot flashes, partially blurred vision in my left eye, tingling in limbs ...
Hello. I have been flat with acute tonsillitis for 3 days now, also had very high fever and took an ibuprofen this morning to lower the fever. Before the illness, I already had an elevated heart rate for 5 days - 88, and with the tonsillitis around 9...
Hello. I have been feeling like I have a fever for the past three days. According to the thermometer, I don't have a fever. I have hot cheeks and swollen eyes. I also have a general feeling of being unwell, even though my last check-ups two weeks ago...
Dear Dr. Schaaf, In October 2015, as a result of immobilization due to a foot fracture, despite receiving Clexane (40mg daily at that time with a body weight of 83kg and height of 1.65m - I have since lost 10kg), I developed a thrombosis in the fibu...
Hello, I (34, male) am currently in India for work. The city is Pune, in the state of Maharashtra. It is developed and urban. Currently, it is the rainy season here, so it is humid and partly muggy. 1.5 weeks ago, I had a viral illness with fever, c...
I have a urinary tract infection with a multidrug-resistant Proteus mirabilis. I briefly took ciprofloxacin because the doctor mistakenly assumed it was E. coli, after the lab results I was switched to Moxifloxacin 400. I have been taking this for 8 ...
