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

[Guest guest]

I have a feeling you'll be coughing up stuff for quite awhile.

Heck, I'm coughing up gallons of it just from my allergies.

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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[Guest guest]

I have a feeling you'll be coughing up stuff for quite awhile.

Heck, I'm coughing up gallons of it just from my allergies.

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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[Guest guest]

I have a feeling you'll be coughing up stuff for quite awhile.

Heck, I'm coughing up gallons of it just from my allergies.

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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