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For 19 days, My wife has had fever and muscle soreness to where I have to help her stand up and get out of bed. She is convinced she is dying. Please help.We have been to the clinic twice since this started but since she has no respiratory problems they did not test for covid. She had a chest x-rayMe and our 1 year old are fine. Wife did not get the flu shot this year so we think it might be related but for 19 days seems outrageous.She has been prescribed antibiotics and tamiflu which she finished two days ago.She gets fevers around 2pm and closer to bed time around 9pm. They've been around 102 on average and peaking at 102.9 a few days ago.We're scared because this hasn't let up for 19 days. Are there side effects if your body stays at fever temperature for long periods of time?Is 19 days unheard of for the flu?? Is it likely something else?31 F 5'9 188 lbs. Caucasian.Taking Tylenol regularly to fight fever and achesUpdate: Wife is in hospital. Thank you for the help.I can't be with her yet. All of our normal sitters and family are either out of town, unavailable or also sick.They would not let us bring the baby in so I'm just home waiting for info. She is at least in good hands.
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She'd almost certainly have a headache though and I see no mention of that.
I agree. He should go straight to the most advanced ER/hospital local to him. A lot of things are probably going on.Once the more acute and scary things are sorted out I'd look into a sleep study to find out if he has sleep apnea since it can cause a cascade of serious problems.Also I do not mean to sound insensitive (and of course doing this is a very personal decision) but if obesity is a big problem for him he may want to consider weight loss surgery after he recovers from whatever is going on now. I was obese my entire life, once my health started failing I had gastric bypass surgery and I can't tell you how much it has helped me and probably saved my life.
I agree he needs urgent evaluation with his worsening symptoms. The differential is broad for his various symptoms and will likely need cardiac, pulmonary and GI workup.