Name That Diagnosis

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Hello, Campers!

While the writers amongst you are, I hope, feverishly scribbling away at menolly_au's Have Wilson--Will Travel challenge, I thought the rest of us could play a game. 

So, someone will post a list of symptoms, and everyone else tries to diagnose the patient.  Like in Wheel of Misfortune, whoever gets the correct answer must provide the next set of symptoms.  In honor of Menolly's challenge, some of our conditions could relate to travel or conditions in foreign countries, or for that matter stress of traveling itself. Bear in mind that anything that can happen in New Jersey can happen in Bermuda too.

Wilson walks into a clinic in the tropics, fresh off the airplane.  He complains of problems with his leg:

Redness
Warmth
Swelling

What's wrong with him?

Comments

[cellista-in-c.livejournal.com]

Wilson walks into a clinic in the tropics, fresh off the airplane. He complains of problems with his leg:

Redness
Warmth
Swelling

I'm going to guess - Deep Venous Thrombosis?

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Right!

Your turn. Just post a reply to the original post with the new symptoms in it.

[cellista-in-c.livejournal.com]

Let's see if I manage this one right...

House bursts into Wilson's office one day and calls his name, but Wilson has his back to him and doesn't respond. House finds this suspicious, and he interrogates Wilson further. Wilson admits that he's been suffering the following symptoms:

Episodes of decreased hearing ability
Episodes of extreme vertigo
Tinnitus

What wrong with him?

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Meniere's disease

[cellista-in-c.livejournal.com]

Correct! And back to you :)

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Wilson doesn't show up for work, and when House tracks him down a few days later he finds Wilson with the following:

Very energetic though he hasn't slept in a few days
Euphoric
Rapid speech
Easily distracted
He's invented a new kind of chemo cocktail and has sunk a large sum of money into it's development.

[lifes-own-light.livejournal.com]

I'm going to guess the manic phase of Bipolar I disorder.

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Yes! Any diagnosis involving a manic episode was the right answer. :)

Your turn. Please remember to post your symptoms in a reply to the original post, so the chain won't compress itself.

[lifes-own-light.livejournal.com]

House has been stalking diagnosing Wilson for two and a half weeks. His first office ransacking recon mission, halfway through the first week, turns up only an increase of used Kleenexes in Wilson's wastebasket, though House notes that a few have small flecks of dried blood on them. His second foray into the land of movie posters and baldie memorabilia, a few days into the second week, returns more information. The bottle of Tylenol and oral thermometer that Wilson usually keeps in the first aid kit in the bottom drawer of his filing cabinet have been relocated to the top drawer of his desk, alongside a brand new bottle of eye drops containing both a redness reliever and a numbing agent. Also, there are significantly more used Kleenexes in the wastebasket, and the dried blood is a theme there, not an exception. Later that day, after being stood up for lunch yet again, House notes the way Wilson's clothes are hanging off of him. His increasingly concerned tenacious attempts to secure a blood sample or any tests at all are met with much hand waving and hoarsely voiced claims that, "It's just a cold, House!" A couple of days into the third week House is sitting at his desk seriously considering coldcocking Wilson and strapping him to a bed in order to get the necessary tests done when the man himself shuffles wearily into the room. His expression is exhaustion laced with worry. He gazes at House through red, pain filled eyes and states in between wheezes, "I'm peeing blood."

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Any chance it is Wegener's granulomatosis?

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Well, lifes own light hasn't been able to get back to the game (darn those RL commitments), so why don't we assume you're right and keep going?

[lifes-own-light.livejournal.com]

Correct! My apologies for the delay in responding. As yarroway said, RL commitments. Good job with the diagnosis.

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

No problem, I was busy myself until this moment. I started another mystery illness.

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

Rash on Wilson's face. Especially on his cheeks.
Joint pain
Low grade fever
Headache

House laughs at Wilson. :)

[only-po.livejournal.com]

fifth's disease, aka Erythema infectiosum ?

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed! He must have caught it from one of his peds patients. :)

[only-po.livejournal.com]

Wilson goes into the clinic with a sore throat and fever. His strep test is negative but just in case, he gets a scrip for an antibiotic.

Within 48 hours swallowing is agonizing and spitting hurts too. Looking into a mirror, it looks like his mouth and upper throat are inflamed with ulcers. He continues choking down the antibiotics.

48 hours later (after not showing up to work, without a phone call) House finds him covered in what appears to be large, angry blisters, almost like burns, even on the soles of his feet.

Aaaaaand Wilson finds himself hauled into the hospital with an admitting diagnosis of:

[cellista-in-c.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Does he have smallpox?

[only-po.livejournal.com]

he does not :(

additional clue: taking unneeded antibiotics is never a good idea

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

I haven't the faintest clue, but thanks for supporting my pet peeve that
taking unneeded antibiotics is never a good idea.

[only-po.livejournal.com]

That's a bit of a pet peeve of mine too!

Additional additional clue: for the sake of easy look-up, let's say the antibiotic is Levaquin.

(I do not mean to impune Levaquin in any way so please don't sue! It's only that I know for a fact there's a website out there about Levaquin with the information you're looking for.)

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

Epidermal necrolysis (or Lyle's syndrome)? Though I admit I would have never guessed this without your hints.

My original guess was going to be Hand, Foot, Mouth Disease which fit nicely until I read that adults only get mild cases.

[only-po.livejournal.com]

Got it! :)

(Sorry I ended up being so cryptic.)