Re: Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

May 8, 2004

I have been on Synthroid for about 5 or more years....first at 50, then 75, then 100, then back t0 75. I ran out the week that this was taken but I had enough for the entire week so it wasn't as though I was without any days.. My skin has been so dry, particularly my feet. I use the extra heavy foot cream and then socks and they still look like sandpaper.

Somewhere along the way, they found something that made them want me to have an MRI which came back that they though I had bleeding in the brain. So I've had an MRA last night and another today. First they say there is bleeding, then the say they aren't sure so I am really being put throught the mill...they are concerned about temporal arteritis. I'm having more blood work at 8 AM tomorrow morning, then the rheumy, then a neurosurgeon on Thursday, and back to the neurollogist on Fri to discuss what I was originally sent to him for...the numbness in my feet and legs and the headaches.

I'll let you know what it turns out to be. Right now, I would settle for just a bad scare. BTW, the pulmonist has done all kinds of research to see if there is any connection with Jim and me both coming in from the West Coast with such bad URI's. So far, no connection has been made.

Jane

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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May 8, 2004

I have been on Synthroid for about 5 or more years....first at 50, then 75, then 100, then back t0 75. I ran out the week that this was taken but I had enough for the entire week so it wasn't as though I was without any days.. My skin has been so dry, particularly my feet. I use the extra heavy foot cream and then socks and they still look like sandpaper.

Somewhere along the way, they found something that made them want me to have an MRI which came back that they though I had bleeding in the brain. So I've had an MRA last night and another today. First they say there is bleeding, then the say they aren't sure so I am really being put throught the mill...they are concerned about temporal arteritis. I'm having more blood work at 8 AM tomorrow morning, then the rheumy, then a neurosurgeon on Thursday, and back to the neurollogist on Fri to discuss what I was originally sent to him for...the numbness in my feet and legs and the headaches.

I'll let you know what it turns out to be. Right now, I would settle for just a bad scare. BTW, the pulmonist has done all kinds of research to see if there is any connection with Jim and me both coming in from the West Coast with such bad URI's. So far, no connection has been made.

Jane

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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May 12, 2004

This is one complaint of mine that is going to get straightened out soon. These doctors don't seem to want to assume responsibility for doing these things so I guess I have to be the one that says okay...I need cholesterol every 3 months, thyroid every 6, etc. I so used to having a group of doctors like I had in CA where one doctor handled everything except when it was time for mammo, pap, etc. then he would remind me to go to that specialist, I always knew when had to see the pulmonary guy because my bronchitis, asthma, lungs would act up in one way or other every couple of months. There was lab on the premises, also full x-rays, MRI's, etc. Here I have some doctors that don't even have nurses to draw blood. Drives me nuts.

Jane

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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May 12, 2004

This is one complaint of mine that is going to get straightened out soon. These doctors don't seem to want to assume responsibility for doing these things so I guess I have to be the one that says okay...I need cholesterol every 3 months, thyroid every 6, etc. I so used to having a group of doctors like I had in CA where one doctor handled everything except when it was time for mammo, pap, etc. then he would remind me to go to that specialist, I always knew when had to see the pulmonary guy because my bronchitis, asthma, lungs would act up in one way or other every couple of months. There was lab on the premises, also full x-rays, MRI's, etc. Here I have some doctors that don't even have nurses to draw blood. Drives me nuts.

Jane

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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May 13, 2004

The problem is that the primary doctory should have just have said you should be in the hospital with that kind of temp...it was just that I had my x-rays somewhere else and I was just confused from the high temp. I was thinking it was just like my bronchitis and pneumonia from past times. Next time I will be going to my pulmonary specialist and he won't give me a choice. I still have a temperature and some phelgm is yellow and lots of it is thick....and I still have a cough. Needless to say, he may decide that I still need to go in the hospital since it has now been a month and I've been on this one antibiotic for a month and I'm still am not out of the woods. I did a couple things in my bedroom on Friday which seemed to stretch on all day. I've never seen so many dust bunnies. , I think you bunny has escaped to my condo and already delivered a couple of litters here. There are everywhere around here and I can't Swiffer fast enough. BTW, does anyone have a room air filter machine. I've always had the before on the furnace but since it doesn't always run here, I think I need one to help my allergies.

Jane

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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May 13, 2004

The problem is that the primary doctory should have just have said you should be in the hospital with that kind of temp...it was just that I had my x-rays somewhere else and I was just confused from the high temp. I was thinking it was just like my bronchitis and pneumonia from past times. Next time I will be going to my pulmonary specialist and he won't give me a choice. I still have a temperature and some phelgm is yellow and lots of it is thick....and I still have a cough. Needless to say, he may decide that I still need to go in the hospital since it has now been a month and I've been on this one antibiotic for a month and I'm still am not out of the woods. I did a couple things in my bedroom on Friday which seemed to stretch on all day. I've never seen so many dust bunnies. , I think you bunny has escaped to my condo and already delivered a couple of litters here. There are everywhere around here and I can't Swiffer fast enough. BTW, does anyone have a room air filter machine. I've always had the before on the furnace but since it doesn't always run here, I think I need one to help my allergies.

Jane

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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May 13, 2004

Yes, we flew to Vegas and then drove on over to CA to my son's for a week. I look back now and realize that I really was less that peppy then...I didn't want to do anything but sleep. I went out to lunch one day with my old business partner and then out to dinner one night with them also. The rest of the time we were at Jim and 's.

Jane

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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May 13, 2004

Yes, we flew to Vegas and then drove on over to CA to my son's for a week. I look back now and realize that I really was less that peppy then...I didn't want to do anything but sleep. I went out to lunch one day with my old business partner and then out to dinner one night with them also. The rest of the time we were at Jim and 's.

Jane

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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May 13, 2004

Yes, we flew to Vegas and then drove on over to CA to my son's for a week. I look back now and realize that I really was less that peppy then...I didn't want to do anything but sleep. I went out to lunch one day with my old business partner and then out to dinner one night with them also. The rest of the time we were at Jim and 's.

Jane

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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May 16, 2004

You're right! I'm always doing it with just my allergies also so why should I be so surprised.

Jane

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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May 16, 2004

You're right! I'm always doing it with just my allergies also so why should I be so surprised.

Jane

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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June 9, 2004

Oh Jane! I hope it turns out to be something minor and easily fixed! This is very scary and I can't believe they wouldn't stuff you into the hospital until they find out something for certain about this.... um, they didn't try to do that and you refused, right? MAKE JIM TAKE CARE OF YOU! Let him know that if anything happens to you, about 20 women will converge upon him and he'll wish he only had some of your problems! If nothing else, rest. Put in earplugs so you don't hear him calling for dinner, his shoes or whatever other chores you're supposed to be doing and just lie back and rest! PLEASE!

Don't make me have to come to Florida and take care of both of you! Ask Dawn what happens when I show up at your house!! hehe

Hugs and prayers for good results!

Christy

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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June 9, 2004

Oh Jane! I hope it turns out to be something minor and easily fixed! This is very scary and I can't believe they wouldn't stuff you into the hospital until they find out something for certain about this.... um, they didn't try to do that and you refused, right? MAKE JIM TAKE CARE OF YOU! Let him know that if anything happens to you, about 20 women will converge upon him and he'll wish he only had some of your problems! If nothing else, rest. Put in earplugs so you don't hear him calling for dinner, his shoes or whatever other chores you're supposed to be doing and just lie back and rest! PLEASE!

Don't make me have to come to Florida and take care of both of you! Ask Dawn what happens when I show up at your house!! hehe

Hugs and prayers for good results!

Christy

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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June 9, 2004

Oh Jane! I hope it turns out to be something minor and easily fixed! This is very scary and I can't believe they wouldn't stuff you into the hospital until they find out something for certain about this.... um, they didn't try to do that and you refused, right? MAKE JIM TAKE CARE OF YOU! Let him know that if anything happens to you, about 20 women will converge upon him and he'll wish he only had some of your problems! If nothing else, rest. Put in earplugs so you don't hear him calling for dinner, his shoes or whatever other chores you're supposed to be doing and just lie back and rest! PLEASE!

Don't make me have to come to Florida and take care of both of you! Ask Dawn what happens when I show up at your house!! hehe

Hugs and prayers for good results!

Christy

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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June 9, 2004

Don't make me have to come to Florida and take care of both of you! Ask Dawn what happens when I show up at your house!! hehe

Add me to the list Christy! I'll show up also and we'll take care of Jim.

June 9, 2004

Don't make me have to come to Florida and take care of both of you! Ask Dawn what happens when I show up at your house!! hehe

Add me to the list Christy! I'll show up also and we'll take care of Jim.

June 9, 2004

Don't make me have to come to Florida and take care of both of you! Ask Dawn what happens when I show up at your house!! hehe

Add me to the list Christy! I'll show up also and we'll take care of Jim.

June 10, 2004

Jane--did you fly out there? I swear everytime we fly I end up sick by the time I'm home--usually bronchitis, sometimes just a cold.

Hope everything goes well.

Kathy

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

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June 10, 2004

Oh, I think we all want a piece of that, LOL

Kathy

RE: Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

Don't make me have to come to Florida and take care of both of you! Ask Dawn what happens when I show up at your house!! hehe

Add me to the list Christy! I'll show up also and we'll take care of Jim.

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

June 10, 2004

Count me in!

-- Re: Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

Oh, I think we all want a piece of that, LOL

Kathy

RE: Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

Don't make me have to come to Florida and take care of both of you! Ask Dawn what happens when I show up at your house!! hehe

Add me to the list Christy! I'll show up also and we'll take care of Jim.

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

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June 10, 2004

Count me in!

-- Re: Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

Oh, I think we all want a piece of that, LOL

Kathy

RE: Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

Don't make me have to come to Florida and take care of both of you! Ask Dawn what happens when I show up at your house!! hehe

Add me to the list Christy! I'll show up also and we'll take care of Jim.

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

____________________________________________________ IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here

June 10, 2004

Count me in!

-- Re: Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

Oh, I think we all want a piece of that, LOL

Kathy

RE: Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

Don't make me have to come to Florida and take care of both of you! Ask Dawn what happens when I show up at your house!! hehe

Add me to the list Christy! I'll show up also and we'll take care of Jim.

Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

____________________________________________________ IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here

June 14, 2004

When we were in the southwest in April is when my asthma got so bad, and then of course I got sick from the flight, too. Denny got upper respiratory stuff following the trip, too, but not as bad since he was still on his chemo which is and antiviral thing.

Kathy

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

__Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

June 14, 2004

When we were in the southwest in April is when my asthma got so bad, and then of course I got sick from the flight, too. Denny got upper respiratory stuff following the trip, too, but not as bad since he was still on his chemo which is and antiviral thing.

Kathy

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

__Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

June 14, 2004

When we were in the southwest in April is when my asthma got so bad, and then of course I got sick from the flight, too. Denny got upper respiratory stuff following the trip, too, but not as bad since he was still on his chemo which is and antiviral thing.

Kathy

Results on some of my tests and some are really out of whack!

I saw one of my doctors today who has been calling and calling wanting me to come in about blood work I had down several weeks ago. Jim and I have been out of town but I got sick 4 or 5 days after coming back. It takes forever for them to decide to run this full panel and then they call and call and call and I kept telling them I couldn't come in because I was too sick. I had lots of different areas that were out of whack but the 2 that really concerned the 3 things that really concerned him was my CRP which was 213 results on a reference range of 0.0 - 4.9. That could have been the pneumonia that was coming on except we have to find out if it was viral. Medline says:

Since the CRP is a general test, a positive CRP may indicate any of a number of things:

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatic fever

Cancer

Tuberculosis

Pneumococcal pneumonia

Myocardial infarction

SLE

(**The CRP test was veriffied by repeat analysis repeated ab another lab**)

______________________

My BUN reading was 26 when the reference range is 8 - 25 so that not's too bad.

My SED rate result was 101 on a reference range is 0 - 20.

Lymph % was 16% actual on a reference range of 19 - 48.

All my CBC w/differential was low.

Alpha Globulin was 0.6 actual on a reference range of 0.3 - .4

THYROID:

The thing that really seemed to alarm my doctor more than anything though was the thyroid readings.

The T-uptake reading was 40.6 % when the new reference ragne is 22.4 -36.7.

The TSH as 10.84 uIU/mL when the new reference range is .35 - 5.50

__________________________

There were lots of other readings that were out not in the normal range but they were just skirting the edge of the

range. Dr. Zipper wants me to see an endocronologist ASAP. As a matter of fact, he got on the phone and talked to mine while I was there and I now have an appt. for Monday. He says that I am anemic, severely hypothroid even to point that I might have to have the nodules in the thyroid removed. I guess when it comes to that it is called myxedema. If you want to read all about this, it will sound like you are reading my symptoms top to bottom minus very few. This might even explain why I have such a hard time losing weight. Go to the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htmI

ly, I got a little bit excited and scared at the same time.. Dr. Zipper said that this could be the answer to a lot of the problems I have been having but on the other hand, he said it very, very, serious if I don't get it taken care of immediately. I have an appt. with my endocronologist for Monday morning. At least it explaines a lot of little things that have baffled me for years...like why my eyebrows could be so bushy when I was growing up and now just about disappeared completely. Another thing is the recent ability to converse and pull the words out of my brain that I needed to use in a sentence. There are lots and lots of consequences. This could give me hope for getting rid of some of the long term pain in the muscles that they have been able to control but how fast do they have to work before more damage is done?

I see the pulmonist tomorrow. He ran his own set of bloodwork and it will be interesting to see what they say....he was very concerned about family cholesterol history, heart problems, etc. I will then see the neurologist I week from Tuesday when he gets back to find out the results of the EMG, the EEG, and the brain MRI.

Please say some prayers for me I am going to need them until I find out what's going on and get the treatment started .

Jane

__Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com Please visit our website at:http://ACES_Autoimmune.tripod.com

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