Who else out here is suffering from something that baffles doctors? I have had a cough, chest pain and massively swollen glands in my neck and round my jaw for 8 months. I don't have glandular fever, it hasn't really responded to antibitoics, or massive increases in my asthma medicine. Today I had a chest x-ray, which seems clear, a test to see if its lots of tiny pulmonary embolisms (its not) and blood tests which showed I don't appear to have an infection (so they don't think I have TB). Plus my blood tests don't indicate elevated levels of anything that might indicate cancer. So whilst all the doctors I've seen agree that coughing so much with massively swollen glands is generally a sign of very bad things, I appear not to be suffering from any of them. I'm ill, but no one knows what with. Any other medical mysteries out there? I think I should nominate myself for the storyline of an episode of House. Then all the medical scriptwriters could diagnose me and someone slimmer and more photogenic could play me.

Have you ever seen the show "Medical Mysteries" on tv? It's great! I thought this was what the thread was about at first.

Anyway, I hope they figure out what you've got.

not really sth that baffles the doctors but I've had a weird vulval/vaginal rash for months, very painful, and they've done tests and it's not an std or yeast infection. they just can't find the cause.
they give me creams but nothing works....

Thats got to be really annoying! I hate it when it seems like your body is screwing you over just for a laugh.

cant it be bronchitis? cause that's not an infection, but more like an allergy?