I have my results on my LP.....and I have nothing about O Bands or IgG...this is all it says...


CSF VOL TUBE 3: 1.8
CSF COL TUBE 3: Colorless
CSF APP TUBE 3: Clear
CSF WBC TUBE 3: 0
CSF RBC TUBE 3 : 0
CSF GLUCOSE: 64
CSF PROTEIN: 46 (This is the only one that shows I'm higher than 'average')

Can someone comment or share what their report says?
PLEASE?????

Here's mine...........................
color - colorless
clarity - clear
WBC - 1
RBC - 12 (none should be seen)
polys - 0
bands - 0 (I don't think this is like MS bands)
lymphs - 100 - high (should be between 40-80)
monocytes - 0 - low (should be 15-45)
eosinophils - 0
tissue cells - 0
IgG quant - 1.4
albumin, CSF - 15
albumin, serum - 4.0
immunglobulin G Qn - 742
IgG/Alb ratio - 0.09
CSF IgG index - .05
IgG Syn rate - -2.1
myelin basic protein 4.2 - high (should be between 0.0-1.0)
oligoclonal bands - 0
CSF/serum Alb. index 4
glucose - 56
protein - 24.1
ADRL - non reactive

I am TWEEKED!!!

Why don't I have all that listed?

ALL of my doctors took today off.....

Did I say I was TWEEKED?

Anyone else have something to add?

How weird. I found my folder and flipped right to the LP results!



Normal across the board

Serum Alb - 4450
CFS Albumin - 17
CFS IGG - 1.3
CFS Index - .44
IGG stnthesis Rate - 0.0
IGG - 760
Ogliclona Bands Absent
Myelin Basic Protien T/F (What does that mean?)


Glucose - 63
Gamma globulin electropherosis T/F (again, who knows)

CFS total protien 32
Color - colorless
Clarity - clear
Supernatant - colorless
Rcb - 6 ( no range given, but it's in the *normal* column, so okay)
Nucleated cells - 0
SF diff - Nucleated cells <5/uL, Diff not tested. (And no idea what this means either. Is that normal? Should I ask?)

Note - they can find blood cells, because they just poked a needle in there. I was told that my doc was happy he got clear fluid and that was part of the reason, because he did not disturb enough to bloody up my samples. The other reasons for cloudiness could have been diseases.

Just saying what I was told, not like that's gospel.

I have 2 more pages of results, but that's all normal too. They cultured for fungus, organisms, all kinds of icky stuff. Mulder and Scully would have loved it.





I'll go on if you want. Don't wanna bore you with stuff you can't use, you know?

I would ask about your protien though. See what they think that's from. Only thing I'm thinking is... are they going to want to repeat the LP? Do you want to open that can of worms?

Sorry... shutting my pie hole now.

Thanks Brain....I'm so upset!! How could he say no MS when they didn't do all the testing? I can't believe it (tears!)

Looks like everyone got a full set of tests but me!!

I'm waiting to hear from the radiologist...the only one working today...that did the LP. I told him that day that I was being tested for MS, and he did say something about not having a full order or something...but I dismissed it at the time...I figured once I said MS, he'd do the right thing!!!

Here I am running around seeing a therapist spilling my life story and ... OMG!!

DH called and said to calm down. My Optho/Neuro is top dog in this town and about the closest thing we have to an MS doc I know of (he will be my second opinion as soon as he gets back on Monday)....Now I think he is going to tell me that the test is incomplete and my protein is at least 6 points higher than normal...On the results, it says some stupid stuff that I googled, and it indicates that it could be high because of antibiotics....of which I've taken none in YEARS!

This is an outrage....No, I don't want to do it again...what did the Neuro think? That it was FUN? What an IDIOT!

I've not said anything, but I've been really tired, dizzy and the hands and feet thing has continued. How could they dismiss me?

Is it possible that you don't have all of the results just yet?

If I remember correctly, the MS type markers took longer to come in than the other tests on the fluid.

Good luck!

Here are some explanations:

http://www.neurohaven.com/ms1.htm

http://dpalm.med.uth.tmc.edu/clinica...ps/CSFint.html

Cherie

I just had one on the 31st (what joy!! ) and they ended up with 5 tubes of fluid. What you have listed looks to me like they have given you the partial results from only one of the tubes:

Cerebral Spinal Fluid Tube Number 3 - The volume in the tube could be 1.8 (whatever measurement they are using) and the appearance is clear, the white blood cell count is 0, the red blood cell count is 0, the glucose count is 64, and the protein count is 46. That is all just a guess on my part, but from all I've learned, it certainly seems like a reasonable one. It doesn't look like you've really been given the results at all. I don't think they would have done a spinal tap and not done the entire testing. That would be ludicrious and very unprofessional on their part.

I know how upsetting it is because I'm still waiting on the results of mine to come back, but try to stay calm until Monday when you can talk to someone else about it and find out for sure. Your results should have the same information everyone else here has listed.

Believe me, I know how stressful it can be waiting. I'm waiting on the results from that and I also just got called back because they saw something on my mammogram they don't like so I have to go through more extensive testing on that and I couldn't get in until next week for that either.

I'll say a prayer for you and hang in there. Do your best not to worry and let us know what you find out. I'm wishing the best for you!

Mine toke 2 weeks to come back.