Originally Posted by Nervous

S'mom, thanks for your thoughts and wishes. I've followed your recent posts and you seem brave and upbeat. I, unfortunately, am neither. Plus, like a lot of us, my disease is not the only thing I'm up against right now. In fact, I have about six major fires that I am trying to put out at the same time. This is difficult. My days grow shorter, thanks to the SFN.

I am not two days but more like two months out from my diagnosis. My diagnosing physician ran these "Immunology" tests:

IGG
IGA
IGM
CRP
RFQIGA
RFQ-IGG
RFQIG
X-CCP.

All were negative. Still, he said that my SFN was caused by an immune deficiency disorder. Go figure.

I subsequently asked my internist to run some tests for nutrient deficiencies (e.g., B-12, B1, B6, D3), but he failed to do this. Apparently, I am in the hands of incompetent, or simply non-responsive, doctors.

P.S. Does anybody know whether, if I switch to Kaiser HMO, they will cover pre-existing conditions like SFN? I'm running out of money.