I don't believe my GP's diagnosis

[RolyPolierThanThou]

I started to feel under par on Friday, sort of vague and fatigued and chilled to the bone, despite everyone around me saying the room temperature was fine. I had no appetite and could only move in slow motion, but I stuck it out at work because I find it very hard to ask to be allowed home.

When I got home I skipped dinner and went straight to bed. Uncontrollable shakes and fevers followed every four hours until Bank Holiday Monday (so three full days of this). My temperature during the fevers was about 39.4 at least (I only started to take my temps on monday) that's 103F.

I took Paracetamol but it didn't do much. Not even for the head that was pounding. I rang NHS direct because I'm in the middle of my second trimester and so very worried. THey advised as it had gone on so long I ring my GP.

He has diagnosed pharyngitis.

I don't have a sort throat. Not even slightly sore. I have a cough (had it for ages) and a runny nose (ditto) but no sore throat. He prescribed antibiotics, but from what I can tell online, most cases of pharyngitis are viral not bacterial, anyway.

my symptoms are flu. rapid onset of muscle aches, fatigue, headache, violent shaking (for up to 2 hours at a time) followed by 2 hours of fever.

Anyway, I haven't taken the antibiotics yet as I'm not convinced that's what it is. I continue to have fevers (currently 38.7 or 101.6). So that's now almost a week of fevers. I may relent and get DH to pick up the prescription tomorrow.

Does anyone really get pharyngitis (without a sore throat) THIS BAD for a week?!

any GPs out there, I'd love to hear from you. I'm wondering whether to go back for a second opinion, but wouldn't that offend the doc I saw?

[bilbodog]

Sounds dreadful but I think I would at least start taking the antibiotics as whatever it is thus could help. If nothing changes within the next 24 hrs I would go back to the Drs. Hope you feel better soon

[MurielWoods]

The chills/fever thing does sound as if you are brewing an infection somewhere OP so I would take the antibiotics and monitor things over next 24/48 hours.

Hope you feel better soon xxx

[makeminea6x]

GP DEFINITELY won't be offended, would just rather you got better. You poor thing, you sound poorly. Get a second opinion if you need to, it's rubbish being ill when you're pregnant.

[MrsCs]

Have you had the flu jab?

[SunshineAndShadows]

Sounds like the flu

[Musicaltheatremum]

Sounds very flu like but maybe you have a secondary infection. Flu jag not much good this year anyway as only covered 3% of strains an I saw some very nasty flus this year. Hope you feel better soon. Just saw he made that diagnosis and prescribed over the phone. Mmmmm. Won't comment on that. I think at a week you should go and see GP and get checked out.

[RolyPolierThanThou]

Oh I wasn't clear. After the telephone consultation he asked me to come to the surgery. Mostly I think so he could check my bp (which was normal, though my heart rate was 122). He checked my throat and diagnosed from that.

Dh is off to get my prescription tomorrow. Hopefully it'll get whatever it is I'm brewing (or whats brewing me). I haven't taken antibiotics in decades. Ive always been so relentlessly healthy.

Oh well, I need to pop back to gp tomorrow to pick up a sick note for work. That's a first for me.

[RolyPolierThanThou]

Thank you all. the fevers are less hot and less frequent so I think im over the very worst of it.