Hi
My lymphocytes, monocytes, lecucytes(wbc), platelets are increasing every months in past 4 months and lymphocytes and monocytes had already crossed the upper limits. My symptoms are legs and knee pain and weakness, sinus at regular intervals, high uric acid, cancer marker test and RA arthritis marker test is negative. Hiv test also negative after 11 months after last protected intercourse.
Chlamydia, herpes and sphilis tes negative after 6 months please suggest something or give ur view points
ankylosing spondylitis (AS), reactive arthritis. Reactive arthritis can be an infection in the joints. Ankylosiing spondylitis is a type of chronic spinal arthritis. So, another way is to use a need and take a sample from the joint and culture it or do PCR to see if you have an infection there. But this is less invasive. The reactive arthritis is not really an autoimmune disease but the ankylosing spondylitis is. So I 'm not sure how they can differentiate which one it is from this test it is more of a screen for both then they would go from there.
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