Help please

[Rosie_P]

I live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I am not new to this site as I have been treated for Hashimoto’s over the last two or three years. I have found this site to be very helpful. I appreciate all of you administrators that give your valuable input. I have yet to find anyone that I have seen locally to give me any answers on a trend that I have in my health and bloodwork. My A/G ratios are consistently HIGH and WBC LOW. The disturbing part of this is that I have unexplained low-grade fevers almost daily. When I talked to my doctor that manages my thyroid condition he sent me to an ENT. They scoped my sinuses and found no real issue there. My doc did say I have Selective IgA Deficiency. He did not address the fevers as if they were not related to this condition. He just sent me some handouts in the mail on how to properly wash my hands 😳 These fevers range from 99 to 100+ No one seems to be able to give me an answer. Can anyone shed some light on a direction that I might take? What kind of specialist would I go to? Again if it weren’t for these fevers that made me feel like crap I wouldn’t even worry about the blood work. 😕

[soupybp]

I don't know if this will be useful information at all. My grandfather has low grade fever all the time which periodically becomes full fever. They finally tracked it down to a persistent e coli infection that he cannot clear. They think that it is due to an issue with his gall bladder surgery a number of years ago. They tried some "high powered" antibiotics. It would seem like it cleared things up, but then it would come back. So now he takes something on a daily basis (not sure what, but not an antibiotic) that keeps the flares limited in occurrence and duration. When he gets higher fever, they do a course of antibiotic.

Have you had testing to see if you have any atypical infections?

Note that my other grandfather has persistent infection of a different sort - blood tests always came back negative until they did a more elaborate, longer culturing process that finally showed that he was right all along that his problem was an infection.

[Celestialbeing]

Hi Rosie! I am in the USA but on the east coast. I will send you a private message with some info regarding good sites here. Did you get tested for tick diseases? They can cause autoimmune issues that attack the thyroid. How are your thyroid levels? TgAb is the one to measure to see if the body is building up autoantibodies.

[Rosie_P in reply to Celestialbeing]

Thank you, I have not been checked for tick disease. We really don’t have ticks here. But yes. My antibodies TPO- started at 138 when I first got them checked three years ago. I have been able to get them down into the upper 70s by using low-dose naltrexone. I was gluten-free before I got tested for Hashimoto’s so I may have been higher when I was eating gluten before I ever knew I had it. I suspect I had Hashimoto’s for years before I ever found out, because every time they do a panel they just say “oh your thyroid is fine your TSH is within normal range” 🙄. Thank you for your help!

[Celestialbeing in reply to Rosie_P]

Also, a lot of foods contain some form of synthetic folic acid that contributes to issues, especially for people that have the MTHFR genetic mutation.

[Rosie_P in reply to Celestialbeing]

Good to know! Thanks 😃

[KelAnglin in reply to Celestialbeing]

Hello I would also love to have site info in the states as well. Thank you