ANA Test: What are your titres?

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Please help me.

We are three weeks away from a tonsillectomy, which I was so excited about

because

everything I've read shows that a tonsillectomy will most likely cure .

However, my pediatrician just called with the dreadful news that Paige's ANA

test results

are sky high. They were high last year, but they're extremely high right now:

1:640, if that

means anything to you. (Four times higher than they were a year ago.)

My doctor said he didn't know if high ANA levels are a hallmark of . He

said to hold

off on the tonsillectomy until he can find out whether this may be a more

serious illness

like lupus.

Have your children had ANA tests? If so, what were their results? Please tell

me, because

it doesn't seem like there are easily-accessible studies of children with .

I'm so

hopeful that is what she has. seems much more manageable than an

auto-

immune disorder.

If your child who has has had the ANA test, please tell me what the

results are.

Thank you-

Paso Robles, CA

Mom to 5-year-old Paige (who has a fever of 104.6 degrees as I write)