![]() I think there is something going around because I've seen other cases recently of Hand Foot and Mouth." "It does primarily occur in children, but adults can get it too. "But isn't that a little kid's disease," I replied. ![]() So I went to the doctor yesterday morning and he suggested. I went to the bathroom and pulled out my lip in the mirror and I saw little vesicles with white centers and erythematous borders that looked very similar to the ones on my hands. Then I noticed I had some raw spots in my mouth. The feeling was like there were little sores on the bottom of my toes. I noticed them because I was having slight pain in my hand as I touched things. When I got to work, I noticed some small reds vesicular lesions on my palms. I'd been 5 days out since giving up coffee and so any withdrawal symptoms like headache or lightheadedness should have subsided. The doc said to go home and come back if my problems persisted.įast forward to Friday. Hypotension is high on the differential whenever someone complains of lightheadedness, but hypotensive I was not. My pressure was perfectly normal at 120/70. I went to the Student Health Clinic and saw a doctor there. On Wednesday, not only was I feeling lightheaded still, but the pain had extended up to my thighs and pelvis. But, I just put it aside and got on with my day. This explanation wasn't particularly convincing, however, since I had been on my feet for hours at a time over the last 6 weeks during Pediatrics. I figured that maybe the calf pain was from being on my feet for so many hours the day before in the OR. When I stretched them it, it really hurt. On Tuesday I woke up with really deep pain in my calves. I didn't feel achy, but I did feel fatigued. No abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. I didn't have any coughing or congestion. I imagine at this time I was febrile, but I can't be sure. When I came home, I took some aspirin, and that helped with the headache, but the lightheadedness didn't got away. ![]() I was having a splitting headache and still feeling lightheaded as I drove into work. The next day, Monday (9/26) I was to begin my anesthesia rotation. I started to feel lightheaded again, constantly, but now I just chalked it up to caffeine withdrawal. So starting last Sunday, I cut out of the coffee. I drink quite a bit of coffee, and it's never bothered me before, but perhaps I had reached my limit, I thought. These near-fainting spells came on in the morning, and I hypothesized that maybe they were somehow connected to my coffee drinking. The lightheadedness was resolved by lying down. I didn't have a thermometer, so I don't know if I had a fever or not, but I didn't feel particularly hot. Then last Saturday (9/22) I started feeling lightheaded constantly. Over the next week, I only experienced the lightheadedness a few more times, and it wasn't intense like before. When I woke up the next day the lightheadedness resolved. When I came home, I had some dinner and had to just go to sleep. The lightheadedness didn't let up all afternoon. I ate my lunch, thinking that maybe I was not nourished enough or I hadn't drunk enough water. I got very sweaty all of a sudden and had to mop my brow. Right at lunch time, I started feeling very lightheaded, so much so that I had to sit down for fear of fainting. Getting sick is humbling and reminds me that all of us are cut from the same cloth and must confront the same fundamental challenges.Anyway, that's a lot of talk to lead up to what is a minor yet annoying (and kind of interesting) problem.ĩ/14/11: I was doing my pediatrics endocrinology rotation in the diabetes clinic. It's easy to think yourself immune to the very conditions you're trying to treat. Nobody likes to become ill, me least of all, but in a way, I think it's healthy for a physicians and physicians-in-training to get sick because it helps us understand what a patient goes through and how he feels. It is one that many, myself included, are happy to take. Working with sick patients means that one way or another, you're going to get sick yourself.
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