Question: My internist thinks I may have lupus but is unsure. I can't see a rheum doc for another month.
Symptoms are excruciating left side headache they is constant but feels like a hammer when I lay down or stand up, extreme fatigue but insomnia, drenching night sweats, low grade fever, vasculitis on entire body, hot showers feel like like pin pricks, raynaud like phenomena hands, feet, and nose, chest pain and tightness, extreme sensitivity to alcohol, mouth ulcers and nose ulcers, liver lesions, abnormal ekg, intermittent high bp, resting heart rate 100bpm, retinal hemmorhage, intermittent eye ptosis, blurred vision, ringing in ears, feeling of fainting when standing, hip pain that switches sides everyday and radiates to my calf, extremely chapped lips, malar rash that comes and goes, hair loss, dermatitis in back, small red bumps all over legs, swollen face and hands every morning, urinating only twice a day no matter how much I drink, foamy urine that I have to force out, pain in elbows and shoulders, depression, memory loss, loss of appetite, weight loss. I have had a positive Ana in the past but it is now negative. Ct of the head without contrast showed nothing, ct of the chest with contrast only showed liver lesions, hep tests negative, Lyme test negative, his test negative, all stds negative. First blood work that came back showed low rbc and wbc but now are back to normal, high iron serum, had low platelets and now back to normal, small amount of sjogren antibodies but doc said negative, high normal for RA latex turbid, creatinine was high is now low normal, hematocrit low normal, mch high normal, mch high normal, rdw low, neutrophils low normal, sodium high normal, calcium high normal, protein low, trace bilirubin, alkaline phosphotase low, ast sgot 12, alt sgpt 9, iron saturation high normal, INR high, cancer antigen 15-3 12, tsh .5, vitamin d 25 hydroxy very low, anti dna ds ab qn 1. My current internist will do whatever tests I think I need but he has no idea with my symptoms and labs. Please help!