Question: I have been having severe back pain x 3 weeks with swelling on right side. For the past week two new symptoms have presented: severe night sweats and weight loss. I was put on pain killers which does nothing for the pain. An MRI was done (without contrast), and I was assured there is no bone infection. I was also assured it is not Osteoarthritis. The only thing helping my back pain for the last four days is Amoxicillan (prescribed for a tooth that was hurting), so I've stopped the pain meds. I have a very high tolerance to pain. Right now I am a six but I can deal with that. I've never been this sick in my lifetime. The only thing that I did was have some major dental work on March 15th and the back pain presented 9 days later on March 23rd and continuing, along with the two new recent symptoms. Some blood work was also run just this week and my C-Reactive protein is 5.3 and flagged as high (I was told by my doctor nothing to worry), and my alkaline phosphates 138 also flagged as high (again told by my doctor nothing to worry about). Thank you so much for your advice. I just want to get better.