Sick

OK, so it's not so much fun to be sick. I've been sick for a week now, and every day, it gets less fun. Except for that one day when I thought I wasn't sick any more, that was pretty good. On that day (Sunday) I felt so good I went to the gym. Hey, I was even able to lift pretty decent weight for a while. But then I started noticing that whenever I stood up, I got a bit of a headache, which died down. Then I noticed that whenever I changed position, I got a bit of a headache, and when I stood up, I got a bit more of a headache. And then I started feeling tired. So, being smart, I left.

Being smart, but not that smart, I didn't go home, but I went biking and shopping. Then I went home, really not feeling so hot. Er, good. And as the afternoon wore on, I got a headache the likes of which I cannot recall. Ever. Both my temples pulsing with pain, a band over my head between them made of throbbing... lighting. I don't know. Something big and destructive. And every time I moved, the throbbing went up. It was unbelievable. And it took 2 hours of this (during which I refused to take anything because I needed to see if I would still get a fever) before I finally got a fever. Then I took Tylenol, then ibuprofen, then felt somewhat better. I even slept OK.

So this am I went to the doctor (urgent care at UCSF, not my useless GP here), where they ran some tests. Everything so far is negative. My white blood cell count is as normal as possible, I'm not anemic, my kidneys seem to work, my liver is OK. Even my malaria smear (so far) is normal. Stupid lab tests. What do they know?