Hi,
Thanks for reading. There is a LOT that happened here, so I am going to try to reduce it to the important details.
About 3 months ago, sexual activity (kissing / oral, then protected vaginal) with a woman who said she had been in the hospital a few weeks ago for bad kidney pain after anal sex. Figured it was a UTI or something that was not contagious. They did extensive testing and never found anything, and said to stay hydrated, and she seemed to recover.
About two weeks later, went on a trip and had really bad congestion and cold/flu. Didn't think much of it as this has happened a lot when I travel. Could have passed something to children at this point as we were all in close contact.
2-3 weeks later, my children got ill, sore throats, feeling very bad, stayed home from school a few days. Eventually got better, but still some unusual fatigue the next couple of weeks, and sore throat that took a whiel to go away. My son still has a bit of phlegm and cough in the mornings.
I got slightly sick a few days after they did, and was also worried because their sore throats lasted so long. Did throat culture, nothing.
I started dealing with Urethritis in the midst of this, which also spread into prostatis. Presumably I acquired some bacteria from the oral. I should note that I have tested for basically all STDs/STIs outside of window period (latest HIV at 12 weeks), except for HSV which could be 4-6 months I hear, but negative at 3 months.
I took Doxycycline as prescribed, and had a horrible reaction. Felt like my blood was poisoned (found out later that's actually a thing) and almost called the ER, switched to Azithro. Very bad fatigue for 2-4 weeks, bad flank pain, major nocturia, horrible sleep and massive stress for 2-3 weeks. Lost 10-15 pounds.
Blood test showed Neutropfilis, Gilbert's Syndrome (high bilirbubin) - doc said 'fighting something' but wasn't worried - I said I've never pulled a bad blood result in my life before thise.
At some point after the Doxycycline incident, my throat got way worse and I noticed veins and red patches all over my sore throat. Cultured at ENT and came back with Klebsiella and Serratia. Prescribed Bactrim. Took for two weeks - most bodily symptoms went away (flank pain, episodes of increased pulse and headache, occasional left leg pain). Still left with occasional lung/heart pain, though its better.
So seems like a Klebsiella/Serratia infection that disseminated through my body? Problem is, even after meds throat looks bad and I feel 'something' in my throat - not blocking, but its there and gets better or worse. Also have bad bumps on back of tongue, plus the aforementioned red lesions (?).
My two older children have recovered, but my two year old still has very unusual fatigue, and has days where she won't eat. They were all throat swabbed and came back clean. But I KNOW something is wrong with my daughter.
I feel like it is viral, because I still have days where I'm tired, throat hurts, and some sort of head tiredness. Maybe my immune systems was weakened from fighting multiple things and the wrong medicine, and she just had a weaker immune system due to being two.
I had EBV in college and had tonsils out. Wondering if it could have flared up, but probably just some diagnosed virus? No one really had badly swollen lymph nodes, or fevers. Just the fatigue, lack of appetite, and moodiness. I'm at a loss here.