Re: Re: MRI RESULTS & LAB RESULTS

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Becky..Honey I am speechless for you...I am sitting here in silent prayer for you, as I write you today..Praying that you get all the answers to your questions. The biggest questions being....Why were you lied to and deceived? Or was this simply that they aren't fully trained in these area's? I would ask flat out! This is why doctors only PRACTICE!!! Thats what I always say anyway!! I am glad you have it in your hands..BLACK AND WHITE, in writing what is going on..and before you go back to ANY DR. make copies...Just so you have them for yourself!!!! Anyone who Lies to me deserves to be FIRED!!! I am so sorry you are having to go through what you are going through right now. But you have it all in your hands now..plus you now have the UPPER HAND...do what you have to do honey.

Remember we are here for you...backing you 110%

Hugs,http://andcoverageforall.info Owner/Founder And Coverage For All 2 Yahoo Grouphttp://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ACFA2/

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God Bless You and Your Friend...I believe that Becky needed to hear that. Reading that made a whole lot of since to me. My doctors have told me the same thing. If there is more than 1 issue going on they simply don't commit. , you and your Friend did a good thing here. Even though it isn't a DX, it WAS meant to calm Becky a bit and hopeful educate her a bit more on her issue. MAY, GOD BLESS YOU BOTH, ALWAYS!!! That was so very Kind!

Hugs,http://andcoverageforall.info Owner/Founder And Coverage For All 2 Yahoo Grouphttp://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ACFA2/

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Everybody take a deep breath. Depending on what drugs you were on, your lab

results may be perfectly normal. Example. If you are taking Tetracyline

(very common antibiotic) and they do a CBC on you it will appear that you

have very advanced leukemia. Not knowing what meds you are on, I can't say

your results are normal, but don't jump to the conclusion that your docs

lied to you. Ask them why they consider them normal. There is probably a

very god reason.

One bright spot in an MRI does not a disease make. 30 persent of the

folks who have MRIs show some abnomaly that we just didn't know about 30

years ago because we couldn't see it. My daughter had an MRI when she was

15 and they discovered a " mass " in her ventricle of her brain. A Repeat on

year later show no change, so it was just an abnomally the she was born

with.

This is why hospitals don't like to raw results to patients; patients don't

take the who picture into account and have themselves dead based on thes

tests that are wrong for many reasons

Maybe somewhere else in you chart it is noted that the blood was drawn above

and iV; that would really whack the test results.

Tom Carr

Re: MRI RESULTS & LAB RESULTS

OMGosh!!!! When is your next neuro visit or dr. visit. I also would

feel the same way!! I hope that you get some answers quick!! Is'nt

it funny how we (as patients) put our life into their hands and yet,

they act like we are nonsignificant....(i'm bitter, sorry if that

offended anyone) Good luck and hopefully you get answers quick.

LeAnn

> Okay folks, I went and picked up my med records from last weeks

inpatient

> hospital stay... I was in for a big, big shock! Not only were my

doctors NOT

> honest with me about my MRI, they also neglected to tell me that I

had a great

> number of ABNORMAL blood and urine test results that could be

significant.

> Here's what the reports show:

>

> My formal hospital discharge diagnosis is listed as: Optic Neuritis

> w/possible Multiple Sclerosis, remaining unconfirmed.

>

> My hospital nursing notes and doctors notes read: Vision in right

eye tests

> consistantly at 20/70 and left eye at 20/100. (far from 20/20

vision, eh?)

> Speech slurred and stuttered. III Cranial Nerve not detailed

intact. Color

> plates abnormal. Mute plantar reflexes. Finger to nose

coordination

> dysfunctional with left side. Gait is abnormal to the left side

and pt unable to

> perform heel to toe walk, exhibits left side weakness; tandem walks

with

> difficulty.

>

> The doctor notates: MRI shows some high signals requiring further

review.

>

> The ACTUAL MRI reading:

> 1st one: CSPINE: Multisequence, multiplanar images are performed

w/ and w/o

> contrast using 20cc of ProHance by IV. It is compared to previous

study and

> no focal abnormal signals are noted. There are no enhancing

lesions. There

> is no spinal stenosis. There is no interval change. Impression is

negative

> without interval change.

>

> 2nd one: MRI of Brain: Multi-sequence, multiplanar images

performed w/ and

> w/o contrast using 20cc of ProHance by IV. It is compared to

previous study

> of 12/15/01. I do not have all of the contrasted images of T1

axial at this

> time. This report is made on all other images. There is no acute

infarction.

> There is minimal focal increased signal in the right frontal lobe

on coronal

> FLAIR images at level 7 which was not seen on the previous exam.

There is a

> small but very bright signal within the left maxillary antrum

superiorly just

> below the orbit which may represent retention cyst or polyp. There

may well be

> localized mucosal thickening which was not seen previously.

> IMPRESSION: Small bright signal in the superior margin of the left

maxillary

> antrum just below the orbit new since previous exam. May be polyp

versus

> cyst. May be localized mucosal thickening. Very bright signal

within the right

> frontal lobe which was not previously seen. May or may not be

nonspecific. No

> enhancing lesions noted or evidence of acute infarction.

>

> NOW.. the LAB tests that I knew NOTHING about til today... I was

told

> everything came back FINE. HAH!

>

> White Blood Count: Normal range is 4.8 to 10.8. MINE = 14.5

> Platelet Count: Normal is 140-450. MINE - 102

> Monocytes: Normal is 0.0 to 8.0. MINE = 8.3

> Carbon Monoxide Blood Level: Normal is 22-29. Mine = 32

> Potassium: Normal is 3.5-5.1. Mine is 3.0

> Glucose: Normal range for this time of day is 70-108. Mine is 213.

> Creatinine: Normal is 0.5 to 1.2. Mine is 0.3

> Urine Protein: Normal is negative. Mine is ABNORMAL

> Urine Mucus: Normal is Negative. Mine is ABNORMAL

> Urine White Cells: Normal is 0-5. Mine is 8.

> Urine Squamous Cells: Normal is below 10. Mine is 20

>

> Does anyone else see something wrong here? Is it just me? Am I

> overreacting? Should I not have been informed of all of the

abnormal results here? The

> doctor looked at me and said my blood/urine tests came back fine!

My red blood

> count was at the bare minimum lowest to be in the normal range.

The range is

> 4.2-5.4 and mine was 4.2. That's 11 tests with noticed results

that I was

> not informed of. Now I have to find out what they mean! I'm so

irritated and

> so depressed. There is a lot of information here that I need to

learn more

> about and try to piece together what's going on with me!

>

> Becky

>

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