Body Temperature/Fevers

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Enid (and everyone else!),

Hi! I'm sorry it's taken me so long to write back to you on this fever/low temp

issue. I'm up at Mayo Rochester currently and they're keeping me pretty busy.

The fever counting principle was pretty easy. Basically, she just told me that

I would use the same scale as a person with a 98.6 degree normal temperature.

For instance, if you are normally 98.6 and you go up .4 degrees, that would put

you at 99 (a low-grade fever). If you start out at 96.8 degrees and you gain .4

degrees that puts you at 97.2 (if my math is right), but that would be the

equivalent of a 99 degree fever for someone with a regular body temp. Does that

make sense? If not, let me know and I'll try again.

On a totally different note, I met with my new PSC doc at Rochester Mayo. I was

speaking to him about the fact that I'd been running fevers lately and that it

was worrying me. He asked what my temperature was and I stated that when I'm

not sick I run a 96.8. He interrupted me and told me that ALL people were 98.6

and that I could not possibly be a 96.8. I repeated again that I was a 96.8 and

he again told me that was impossible and that everyone was a 98.6. I tried to

(politely) argue with him but he shut me down. I finally just told him that I

was running 2-3 degree fevers and left it at that. I'm not sure yet if I'm

keeping this doctor or if I'm going to ask for another one (there were more

issues than just the temperature thing), but I found it very frustrating that he

wouldn't acknowledge and didn't seem to know that low body temps was a fairly

common PSC thing! Has anyone else run into this kind of adamant denial about

their symptoms or PSC

related oddities?

Sandi in VA