Awesome memory, yeah hemochromatosis anemia is on top of the MS as well. Too much iron in the blood while the body doesn't store any (well hardly any) but the doctor did order an ANA as well. But hooray! This morning they found my rf factor test and the ana tests came back too

Okay I say hooray!!! Just because they got the tests, not for what the results are unfortunately. Negative on Rf factor! Yippee, positive ANA, boo... Negative anti DNA! Yippee! So it's probably not RA, pretty completely ruled out lupus... So if I had a crystal ball it'd probably tell me my PCP will send me to a rhuemy where the rhuemy will set down the dx of scleroderma (possibly systematic) which of all the possibilities of dx from a positive ANA without anti-DNA it fits where the others don't.

Aggravating pain in the .... Anyways, it also falls in line with an old potential dx when I didn't have health insurance. My doctor at the time had thought of it, but without insurance the cost to get the dx that I wouldn't be able to afford treatment on anyways, he decided what you couldn't afford to treat anyways might was well kill you slowly rather than living out of cardboard box eating leftover ramen noodles.

At any rate, Friday its back to the doctor to once more play pin the tail on the a...donkey. Hopefully when I turn 40 the body doesn't decide I need yet another disease/disorder. At this rate I've got at least one for each decade of my life.