Pericarditis Query

[Bunty]

Wow - thanks for the responses so far and good wishes!

Paul, no I never had rheumatic fever as a child. Thanks for looking into this for me.

Becky, I'm sorry your daughter has to suffer with pericarditis. It certainly is not pleasant. But your comment was very interesting. Tests indicated it was not viral or bacterial, but something was making my temperature spike - usually in the evening after eating.....
I was very run down in the last half of 2018, starting with pneumonia which put me in hospital in August, and I never really fully recovered after that, and I lost a lot of muscle and weight, particularly after they discovered that my duodenum was very ulcerated and bleeding, caused by radiation at the end of 2017 on a lymph node in my abdomen region.

I'll let my oncologist know about possible food allergies too, and hopefully will hear soon about the tests for auto immune diseases.

Cheers Marie