This symptom has returned for hubby. Curious as to how many others have this symptom and which infection you think is causing it.
Hubby's temp starts out at around 98.0 in the morning and then gets up to 99.0 or as high as 100.5 for an hour or two every day -- usually highest after supper but sometimes the spike is in the middle of the afternoon. Advil and boneset don't seem to do much.
LLMD thinks it is babs. It has been a month now and so far we haven't come up with a med combo that will control this symptom.
The most ironic thing about this is that hubby was off meds for 50 days and had not had a fever in about 7 or 8 months and a 5 day antibiotic/antimalarial/antiparasitic med challenge is what restarted the fevers.
Bea Seibert
Posted by sammy (Member # 13952) on :
My fevers seem to be caused by Lyme. It is surprising because you would think that Babesia would cause this more.
Fevers are a miserable symptom that makes everything worse.
Last time I had the fevers it took 10weeks for my doctor to figure out a combo that would get them back under control. Adding an IV cephalosporin really helped. The fevers stopped within 3 days after starting the med.
Posted by rera2528 (Member # 29886) on :
I have 99.3-100.1 nearly every day. They start around 10:30 and last until evening. They had gone away for a while, but they have returned in the past few months.
I haven't isolated which disease. However, I am thinking bart. I am currently treating bart (rifampin, ceftin for bart), and the fevers have become much more consistent.
They no longer bother me much. I think I have gotten used to them. I teach, and I go to the nurse's office 1x or 2x a week to get a temp check to track symptoms.
Posted by emla999/Lyme (Member # 12606) on :
From what I understand the body temperature doesn't normally stay at a set temperature throughout the day and night. For most people it seems as though the body temperature generally rises throughout the day and then a person's body temperature will usually peak in the evening hours. And apparently, a daily body temperature peak of 99 degrees or slightly above is considered normal by some.
Brown says. "In some individuals, it drops to nearly 96 degrees. Every day our body temperature slowly increases until its highest phase may top out at well above 99. Later in the evening and into the night, our temperature drifts slowly downward again to its lowest phase."
Biological clock of human: ***Note that in humans the peak body temperature occurs in the evening.
And for what it's worth, I have noticed that my dietary eating and drinking habits can play a fairly significant role in my daily body temperature. I can easily get my body temperature up to 99 or slightly above in the evening hours by drinking less water/fluids throughout the day and by eating a diet that is high in calories and high in carbs. And my body temperature seems to be at it's highest in the evening, about an hour or two after a big meal.
But on the other hand, if I want my body temperature to drop then all that I have to do is to drink alot of water throughout the day and eat a low caloried, low carbed diet. But then I feel horrible when my body temperature is low so I don't eat and drink that way.
Posted by surprise (Member # 34987) on :
Not sure if this will help or not-
I have Lyme and Bartonella- I hardly ever, ever run a fever, and when I do, just a low grade (99.) it feels horrible to me, like it really is 104. Mine seem to be viral flairs- I can tell it is a viral flair- in the herpes family.
LLMD's don't think I have Babesia -
Posted by Lymedin2010 (Member # 34322) on :
I started to get low body temp during the summer of last year and I did not get a fever for well over a year prior to that.
This winter I got hit with a virus, that all my family members got hit with and i developed 102 fever. It felt great and I felt more human again. A departure from the. 97.2-96.5 temps at times. Since that time my body temp has been better, now 97.7-98.5, but mostly in the 98's.
There is a recipe for increasing body temp that suggests more carbs. I find the more carbs consumed the higher my body temp as well.
Posted by WendyK (Member # 18918) on :
I started getting the daily low-grade fevers after starting the rocephin. Dr. thinks it was the lyme. Then I got a 103 fever one night right after starting Malerone, and felt much better joint-wise the next day. That one I think was hitting the babesia. Now the low fever is back, but I think I just have a cold at the moment...
Posted by Razzle (Member # 30398) on :
My body temp has always been pretty steady at about 97.4 (or sometimes lower). If I feel feverish, sometimes it is up to 98.0 or so, but not always...usually it still says 97.4 even when I feel like I have a raging fever.
I don't even break 100 degrees with a viral infection, so I guess Lyme has totally disabled my body's ability to raise my body temp...
Posted by galsal59 (Member # 45955) on :
The low grade fever made it difficult for years to differentiate hot flashes from the core temp. Multiple docs said if it's core, it's not a flash. Now I get both. It's hell having zero estrogen. But I'm alive and here to speak of it. Now have to wonder if Babs reared it's ugly head about 10 years after it was treated with multiple rounds.