SKI just made me think of something…. if your dr. comes back with saying your White Blood Cell counts are fine, make sure you tell them all of your symptoms. Make sure it’s not the flu. With the mutation ANY symptoms of regular flu can be there but also new ones that we haven’t seen yet so make sure you are clear in what you tell him. Call Endo and General dr. tell them both what is going on.
As far as my kiddies… Back when ds14 was about 5 he complained of a soar throat for a couple of days. Then it was gone. A few days after that we were going out and he complained that his heine hurt. So i looked and exactly where underware would touch him is exactly where he was all red. It looked like sunburn! I put some lotion on it and he screamed it burned him. I took that off and left it alone thinking it was the change in the detergent I used and feeling horribly bad that I did this to him. We had to leave right then to go somewhere and we did. He didn’t complain about it again that night.
The next day he was the same so I brought him to the dr., she said it was Scarlet fever resulting in not being treated for strep throat. I told her I felt horrible that I didn’t realize he had strep and had i known I would have had him in sooner. She said that there are very few that get scarlet fever from it and he happened to be one of the unlucky ones.
The rash can be anywhere but usually is on the trunk or butt and he surely had a fever. He wasn’t in hospital for it I kept his fever down at home but it was 104 and he took a lot of baths that night and was so tired and limp. Dr. said to stick with doing what I was doing and that is what they would do at the hospital for him and the next day he was better, fever broke and although the rash was still there and took a little bit to clear he was fine.
The funny part to this story was that when she was testing him for strep she showed him how to do it with my help. I did one test and since mommy did it he did it. Well mommy wound up positive for strep as well.LOL So he got strep and scarlet fever from it and I wound up with just strep. the Dr. was hysterical laughing at me over that one.
Any time he had a soar throat after that it was right to dr’s office and strep tested. His dr.’s (there are two) are the same since he was young so they know him.
When my other one wound up with a soar throat and I took him in the test came out negative but knowing the history of his brother she prescribed antibiotics as well and I told her I just knew he had to have it. That same night he wound up with the rash and a bad fever. I called her and told her and well we don’t screw around with any soar throat’s with these kids at all around my house lol.
Since we know it happens to them if they get strep we are well aware of what to look out for. Once the soar throat happens it’s easy to get them in and check. Once on antibiotics they wont get the scarlet fever so we’ve been good for a long time.
Scarlet fever has usually always been from undiagnosed Strep throat. I’m just glad that we know this in this day and age.
As for you, you get on the horn with the dr’s and get checked out. Please don’t take a risk.
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but I had meetings today that I had already rescheduled several times, so I could not get away with that again. 
but I really would have loved a call from my primary care. My endo is out until Monday. I am going to call the office once they are open, and give them a piece of my mind.
