Tyson, They have to check your spleen! And your heart.

Do your doctors know about the red areas?

Do the lines on your fingers look like splinters (aka splinter hemorrhages)? Do your doctors know they are there? Damn. If you have subacute bacterial endocarditis, they won't know that without a transesophageal echocardiogram. A regular echo often doesn't catch it. It's where they look at your heart close up through your esophagus. A friend of ours had that. That most certainly can give you chest pain. And because your are immunosuppressed, an infection may not "show up" on CBC. It might on erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

And a HUGE sign of a spleen in danger is redness or a blue area around the belly button. Please be very careful, just in case. Don't move around too much or lift anything.

Other suggestions would be checking your platelets (CBC) and some clotting factors.

It makes me so mad that these doctors ignored you. You should've gone in last night. This kind of stuff you can't mess with.

I hope they will check everything out now. It's not nothing, that's for sure. I hope you'll be okay. Let us know. So much for staying off the forum for awhile!

Annie

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/896540-overview

What I find completely NOT hysterical is that DUKE came up with the revised criteria for diagnosing SBE.

http://www.fpnotebook.com/CV/ID/SbctBctrlEndcrdts.htm