Dear doctor, my name is Temitayo Steven from Nigeria. For the past 8 days, I have been experiencing fever that would start around the afternoon period and disappear in the morning, slight headache and chest pain. Some days before this I had rashes around my anus. I went for a test 5 days ago and below is the result; S.typhi(O 1
Hi, Temitayo Steven, did the doctors check anything besides for S. type? Your symptoms are nonspecific and could be almost any kind of infection. A lot more tests might be needed. The first test you did for S. type only indicates you have been infected at some time; it may not be an acute infection. Some things I would consider are strep, pneumonia, malaria, other parasitic infections, HIV, herpes, certain other STDs, tuberculosis, atypical mycobacterial infections, other bacterial infections. Many bacterial infections require a different antibiotic than Ciprofloxacin. You need to have a good examination, to describe the rash, and get more testing done to see what this could be. Hope this helps.