I spoke to an internal doctor from DH's internal doc's practice today regarding our concerns. He has a folowup appointment next week w/ his doc who is out today.
My question is this...he stated the RA could be causing the temp of 102.3. I said I didn't know that could be the case...could RA cause a temp??
A temp that has come and gone for three months? Since the end of September?
Thoughts??
I have heard of it. I think I have experienced it. I do not check my temp much, but I can tell when I have a fever.
Hope your hubby feels better soon.
This has been ongoing for many months. RA meds have not affected the fevers at all (Mtx, Rituxan, Mobic). It's just another RA cross to bear, for me.
(Which doesn't mean there is not a different cause for you, of course.)
But, don't you think 102.3 is a little high to be considered a "low grade temp?"Wife, remember, fever is not always a bad thing. Fever can raise the ironLast time I had fevers like that, I wound up in the hospital for a week and had to go off MTX for a year!
Sorry to hear it's a chronic issue for you!
I understand this...but, he had pneumonia in September and was in the hospital. He has had 102+ temp on and off since then. He can't sleep at night unless he takes something...so you weigh the benefits. Not sleeping and not working verus Sleeping and working....when work = money and money = food and remicade treatments. You decide which one you would go with if you were in this situation.
If fever works as a natural antibiotic and 1) we get them fairly often and 2) we (AI peeps) as a whole have low iron - what would that mean? I can't follow this today.
Pip
As a nurse, a temp of 102.3 is not the norm for RA and a pretty high fever for an adult. Low grade fevers are more common. I would think he has a septic joint or soemthing with a fever like that. Fever can kill teh germs that give us fever. Think of putting an egg in a frying pan, it denatures the protein. When my children were small I would let them run a fever for a few hours as long as it wasn't outrageous to help them fight whatever infection they had.