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Grand Magnate
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Sydney, Australia.
Posts: 3,093
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Winic1, I have been reading along here and hope that it is OK if I make a suggestion.
One way of helping to diagnose auto-immune diseases like RA and SLE is to run an anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) test.
There are two parts to it. The first is to measure the levels of ANA in your serum. The second is to observe the staining pattern of your ANA in the nuclei of cells from a human cell line; different auto-immune diseases tend to show different staining patterns.
Neither part of an ANA test is definitive (both false positives and false negatives are known) but if your serum ANA levels are abnormally high and you have a characteristic staining pattern then more detailed investigations would be a good idea.
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