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This seems like something that could be misdiagnosed as ME/CFS. There is a treatment.
Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated. Then One Doctor Put It All Together. https://nyti.ms/2BvxJfk
“In Schnitzler syndrome, according to current thinking, the most primitive part of the immune system — a type of white blood cell known as the macrophage — goes wild and instructs the body to act as if it is infected. The body responds with fever and chills, a loss of appetite, flulike body aches, hives and high levels of one specific type of antibody: IgM. Exactly why and how this occurs is still unknown.
The disorder was first described in 1972 by the French dermatologist Liliane Schnitzler, who subsequently identified five patients with hives, episodes of prolonged fever, bone pain and enlarged lymph nodes. These symptoms, plus an elevated level of IgM, Schnitzler proposed, defined a new disease.”
Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated. Then One Doctor Put It All Together. https://nyti.ms/2BvxJfk
“In Schnitzler syndrome, according to current thinking, the most primitive part of the immune system — a type of white blood cell known as the macrophage — goes wild and instructs the body to act as if it is infected. The body responds with fever and chills, a loss of appetite, flulike body aches, hives and high levels of one specific type of antibody: IgM. Exactly why and how this occurs is still unknown.
The disorder was first described in 1972 by the French dermatologist Liliane Schnitzler, who subsequently identified five patients with hives, episodes of prolonged fever, bone pain and enlarged lymph nodes. These symptoms, plus an elevated level of IgM, Schnitzler proposed, defined a new disease.”