IMHO ~ If you have a good doctor, follow the doctors advice. Don't rely on what you read online. If you don't have a doctor that you can absolutely trust, ask for referrals in your area.
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If you can, go to a doctor with his own practice and not a medical centre doctor. Medical centre doctors just want to give you something to get you out of the office and the next patient in. A doctor with his own practice usually knows more and is a greater help. At least, this is what my experience has shown.
I only go to a medical centre if I just want a certificate for my boss.
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There are a ton of different types of colds, flu's, viruses, etc. Each one lasts a different length of time and makes you feel bad in unique ways.

How long have you been teaching? Most teachers experience an "above average" number of illnesses for the first 5 years on the job. Teachers are exposed to a large number of people and during the first few years often have an overworked and tired immune system.

Based on what you've said, I agree with your doctor and that you likely have an almost random, hard to diagnose virus.

Here's what I do the minute I start feeling sick:

1)
Take some of these. They're herbal and boost your immune system.
http://coldfx.com/

I swear by these and cannot reccomend them highly enough. They are worth every penny and really help to keep you from getting sick.

2)
Drink a lot of Orange Juice.
Buy a large, not from concentrate container of Orange Juice. Drink it like water until (don't laugh) you start peeing orange juice. This will completely max out your system on Vitamin C (you can't overdose) and run good quality fluids through your system to help flush the sickness out. Orange Juice also does some great things to help improve your red blood cell count giving your more oxygen where you need it.

3)
Try not to act sick.
I've found that a bit of being sick is psychosomatic. Obviously, if you're feeling down, you can't do anything about how you act, but I know that if I make a conscious effort to "buck up" and act like I'm fine, sometimes I feel better.

I really hope that this helps. Don't be afraid to take time off work - it's the easiest way to get back to full steam and stop the spread of what you have.
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If you went to the doctor and he told you that you have a virus, he can't really do anything to speed up how fast you get better as of there aren't any antibiotics for viruses. However, whatever advice he gave you is good to listen since he spent several years in medical school and knows what he is talking about. As of I am not a doctor, I don't know what you might have, but there are some ways to help get over it faster. Probably the best way to start feeling better is to believe you're feeling better, kind of like the placebo affect. Instead of waiting around to get better and then trying to do stuff immediately as you start to feel better, do stuff you feel like doing and are fun. Get it into your mind that you feel better, and you will feel better soon.
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While I concur with those before me who say to seek a second medical opinion, those symptoms sound just like the time I got pneumonia, with the big symptoms being that I was tired a lot and had little appetite.

Pneumonia's not a hard diagnosis to miss. My mother is a respiratory therapist, deals with it all the time, and when I came down with it, she completely missed it until the doctor put a stethoscope to my chest later that week because I didn't have much of a fever to indicate infection.
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What your doc is not able to diagnose, how can unqualified people sitting remotely do that?
If your doc is not able to fix it, get second opinion from another qualified professional.
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"but it seems like I've been sick this whole year."
This is what concerns me. I really think that you should get a second opinion. I lived with an illness for over eight years because the doctors at Kaiser couldn't say, "I don't know what is wrong with you." Luckily for me they finally hired a neurologist who did know what was wrong.
If you have experienced fatigue for a long time then its time to see some specialists, especially if you are experiencing any twitching on any part of your body. When you are feeling very fatigued, put your teeth very close together but not quite touching. Do they chatter? Do you feel a shake? That's a dead giveaway for something more serious.
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Your doctor must be right, but as everyone suggested you might want a second opinion.

I have only seen doctors when I injure myself (for stitches) or when I broke my neck and had to be fixed. Other than that, I was once treated for Gastritis or something and I went because I couldn't bear the pain.

I am not giving a medical advice, but I usually treat myself for most ailments with my mind, and some well trusted grandma's homecure.

If I feel I am sick, and it includes aforementioned symptoms, the do the following:
- I sweat myself out. Outdoors are better but treadmill should do. 1 hour of running..
- I eat a lot of Garlic and pepper with my food.
- I avoid FAT., and mostly have Stew with garlic and pepper.
- Did someone mention orange juices
- Honey and Ginger tea. Lots of it.
- And did I say I run .
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We cannot know what is wrong with you, only you have the information within
you as to what kinds of problems you are having and none of us are trained
to identify what it might be, and if we were, the key patient interview
and patient history cannot take place properly in a public online forum.
But you knew that. So you were asking for something else.

If you were not well for a much longer time a few things came to mind.
Since you did not say so, I would guess that you don't have any of these problems, but maybe you can see how hard it is for people who don't know you to try to tell you anything about you when we don't know you.
You see it mentioned online now and then that they were looking for all kinds
of problems and it turned out to be something quite ordinary that the patient
could have checked out themselves or asked the doctor for a simple test for
peace of mind if they have not already done so. You can take a more active
role in your health care and research things, and make your own suggestions
or ask for tests and the doctor will dialogue with you and may do them if
they think it appropriate.
The first one is iron deficiency also called anemia - I am thinking of the
most common sort where there is a simple iron deficiency, and that can be tested by
a simple blood test by a doctor and can cause fatigue that can be mild to extreme
and the treatment is a really simple iron supplement that doctors prescribe.
The second thing that comes to mind is taking a pregnancy test
re: the nausea, but you may already have eliminated that as well.
If you were not well for a much longer time this might come to mind.
The third thing that comes to mind, is from various health information sources
doctors are saying that with the increased globalization that diseases that are
not normally in one area can travel to other areas, and people are more mobile
and go to other areas where they may not know about local health problems and
catch something bringing it back. The local health professional may not be
looking for these things.
Have you taken a vacation or trip to another
country sometime before the health problems started? Do you know what health
conditions are in that area and what is the incubation period for symptoms to
develop? With global travel and immigration diseases can travel also anywhere.
Did you know that large citiesb often have tropical disease units in
a designated local hospital where they
can check out such things that a local doctor would not be looking for because
it is a specialty area? I am not trying to cause you needless distress. Well
people reading about diseases including doctors often start thinking Oh, I must
have that, I must have that, it happens and I hope that you stay positive
and focussed on looking for positive solutions and information that may be helpful
realizing that eliminating unhelpful information may just be a necessary part of the
process to finding the solution. Play some nice music, relax with a coffee or tea,
pat the cat, dog, or goldfish and relax. Finding information is fascinating
all by itself so enjoy what you learn for another time, and enjoy the treasure hunt
search! It can be very interesting by itself.

Keep positive - stay calm and happy - relax in your search. Here is one uplifting link:
zenhabits
http://zenhabits.net/

An Example of a clinic from the web:
Travel Clinic in Minnesota
http://www.mayoclinic.org/travelclinic-rst/

Treating Tropical Diseases U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1997 article for intro, look for recent info for details)
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1997/197_trop.html
Here are a couple of link pages from Mahalo.
Pregnancy
http://www.mahalo.com/Pregnancy
Anemia
http://www.mahalo.com/Anemia

For the second part of your question, what can I do about it?
I am not insulting you in recommending this book, I think that
everyone should read it or the relevant chapters for what you are
using the reading for. Without it I would not have passed any
courses beyond high school and it helps with all personal reading too.
This is if you are really serious about reading deeply to understand.

How to Read a Book Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
"This book is for readers and for those who wish to become readers"
http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Touchstone-book/dp/0671212095/

He also has another book that sounds excellent but have not yet had time
to check out:
How to speak How to Listen "How do you make contact with the mind of another person?"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684846470/

I cannot say whether this is a good quality web article, I don't recognize this source
but from a quick look, the article sounds good and relevant to the question you asked:

Doctors: How To Work Effectively With (lots of links, steps to follow, ideas to consider)
http://www.survivorshipatoz.org/sub.php?tid=130

Be very careful to read and seriously consider health information only from good quality
health sources, that are authoritative, eg. hospitals, professional health associations,
government health websites.

I did a quick search on a topic where fatigue is a key symptom but obviously this is someone who is having a longer term problem not just of one week in duration, not at all to say
that you may have it, but as an example of the best health sources I could find on the
web in a quick search, so that you can reuse these links and find others to find
information about other conditions and health issues you wish to know about. Words you might want to search are whatever the doctor called what you might have eg. Flu
The advantage of reading health information for patients by professionals
is that no matter what topic you are reading about, you may find good tips
within the article for how to get the best out of your health system for anything because
these people have detailed knowledge about how the health system works.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from CDC U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/cfs/

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from FamilyDoctor.org (American Family Physicians)
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/pain/disorders/031.html

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from mayoclinic.com women's health
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/DS00395

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from Merck Manuals Online Medical Library for Healthcare Professionals
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec22/ch334/ch334b.html

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from MedlinePlus U.S. National Library of Medicine/National Institutes for Health
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/chronicfatiguesyndrome.html

One suggestion is to try what you are looking for at http://www.mahalo.com
If you see the search box that says Mahalo (not when it says Mahalo Answers)
If you wait till the page loads on the home page, and you type in the first letter
of the word slowly, then delete and retype it, you may if the system is up
see a box pop up with a whole string of words starting with that letter.
You can browse down, or slowly type in the second letter. It may take
a few tries, as the connection goes out over the web, but you can then see
a browsable list of all the words that are in the Mahalo site as of that update,
scroll down and click on one. Mahalo pages have disclaimers for health info.
You know that for what they probably pay staff, you are not going to get doctors looking
over the health information there :) but they do a nice logical scan and selection
of pretty good quality articles on all topics that they cover, so it is a great start too.

If you are thinking about also expanding your search to outside of the medical field,
the term most often used seems to be alternative health, or alternative medicine.
Here is a source that mentions books that are also available in some public libraries that are introductory about healing yourself, recommended by a local reflexologist as a starting point to begin to understand alternative health frameworks not used in medicine currently, but that are compatible with the kind of energy work that a reflexologist might do.

Adam at dreamhealer.com
http://www.dreamhealer.com

Creative Commons by Uncleweed
Source(s):
http://zenhabits.net/
http://www.mayoclinic.org/travelclinic-rst/ http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1997/197_trop.html http://www.mahalo.com/Pregnancy
http://www.mahalo.com/Anemia
http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Touchstone-book/dp/0671212095/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684846470/ http://www.survivorshipatoz.org/sub.php?tid=130
http://www.cdc.gov/cfs/ http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/pain/disorders/031.html
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/DS00395 http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec22/ch334/ch334b.html http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/chronicfatiguesyndrome.html http://www.mahalo.com
http://www.dreamhealer.com

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You might want to get checked for Lyme's disease. The symptoms are quite similar to yours. Constant fatigue is the real giveaway. Many times this is written off as chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia.

The bottom line is no one knows you better than yourself. If you feel like there's something wrong beyond what your current doctor is indicating not only seek another opinion but see someone that is more familiar with your symptoms. Generalists some times just throw antibiotics at a problem or anti-depressants as if its all in your head.

There are a few new bugs out there and one that is really taking off is Morgellons. Hundreds of thousands are afflicted with a bacteria that produces extremely irritating bite like bumps that often become infected.

Read and learn as much as you can as YOU need to be involved in your recovery. Doctors are in too big of a hurry these days to really get involved anymore. Blame paperwork or whatever but if you want to get well you will need to ask questions and make suggestions.
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There is a possibility that Candida is contributing to your issues. To check for this, first thing in the morning, take a glass of water (before you have eaten anything, or even drank water) Then spit in the glass. If the saliva floats, there is most likely not a candida issue, if it sinks or the water gets cloudy or strings fall from the saliva, you may want to research candida.
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