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Originally Posted by glenntaj
We DO know that Alan has at least one autoimmune condition--though, admittedly, psoriasis is not particularly associated with positive ANA titers--still, while there can be ANA "false positives", it is worth checking out some of the more specific tests to see what kind of ANA is showing up (speckled, bouble-banded, etc.) as these have greater/lesser associations with various types of autoimmune disorders.
Take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_antibody
http://www.rheumatology.org/practice...itions/ana.asp |
Glen:
Just asked Alan "Didn't you go to a rheumatologist some years ago?"
Alan said "Yeah, and he ran blood blood work, and nothing showed up"
Now how can a person have autoimmune issues (and all his doctors ran autoimmune blood work including his neuro), and NOTHING EVER SHOWED UP.
I guess we shall never know.
I should have remembered that Alan had all that blood work done.
He had EXTENSIVE blood work done when he had the reaction to taking Celebrex. I remember the doctor from Hematology coming in and saying "We have two labs that do blood work, we have the labs that we send blood out to, and we have MY lab upstairs in hematology and I sent his blood to MY lab. I just want to make sure we are not missing anything."
Everything came back as NOTHING.
We need a Dr. House.
Thanks very much Glen. Hope to see you at the meeting.
By the way, did your wife make any cakes? lol
Melody