The steroids did help a little bit , but the downsides were just too big . I ' m negatove for ANA but positive for Rheumatoid Factor and somehow have IGG antibodies to a bunch of diseases , including rocky mountain spotted fever , which they must just not have found when I first got sick I guess . And IGM antibpdies for coxsackie virus , so I guess I have that chronically though usually only kids get it ? Maybe it ' s just because I ' m immunocompromised , idk there ' s just so much doctors just kinda skimmed past . When I first got sick I went to the ER cause I got crazy bad headaches , they sent me away saying I had the flu amd I went to a differemt hospital the next day to find out I had mild encephalitis . Why ? shrug uhhh let ' s say something like postviral syndrome . Sorry kinda went on a tangent there , lol . It ' s frustrating but I have hope . My thinking is if I see enough different kinds of specialist one will hit something identifiable lol . Oh , and I haven ' t been tested for immunodeficiency yet , but with my low WBC I ' m hoping to next visit . Thanks for the encouragement