ms and possitive results for ana rnp what does this mean

[ashvaseva]

i have ms and just had bloodwork done and was told that i tested possitive for ana and rnp now they are sending me to a rheumatologist what is ana and rnp and what does all of this mean

[Michelerose68]

Ok here it goes I am a 49 female that had inflamation/auto immune issues since 2009.Each year may ANA results have gone up.Dotor said it mimics Lupus and MS.I have 8 small brain lesion this past year that were not there year before.My latest ANA was 19 and I have over 30 spots in my arms that have ruptured.The sting like a bee sing and with in second a small round bruise appers.So any one know what the ANA is for lupus or MS?

[jacement]

Hello, I am very curious about what your numbers were.  The past few years I have been told I have bad back and I had surgery on my neck.  I now have been referred to MS clinic because MRI of my brain showed a couple lesions.  However, today I received phone call from clinic regarding blood work.  Everything came back neg except ANA test was 13.  She said they don't think it is Lupus but a cross over of MS.  I was never told I had MS why would I nurse call me with this result. The bloodwork was to rule out auto immune diseases.

[mamiJ]

hi HVAC,

I just wanted to be a little remedial here...lol

to make sure I read your post right, they told you that your positive ANA was from MS?

I had my first positive ANA about 5 years ago, but it was blown off, saying that namy people have it.

I started to have my weird symptoms for about 6 months now.

[RedFlame]

ANA is an Anti-Nuclear-Antibody.  They use it in the process of diagnosing many types of inflammatory/autoimmune types of arthritis.  They have to rule other things like this out to make sure you are being treated correctly.  Elevated ANA can be seen in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, Lupus etc.  

[HVAC]

A high ANA means inflammation they might then do an anti DNA to rule out Lupus. I had a high ANA but in the end it it pointed to MS but they did a ton of blood work to rule everything else out.

Alex

[Karen99]

Hi.  I was wondering the same thing because my neurologist ordered an RNP this visit and was going to look it up.  This link answers a good part of the question:

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Autoimmune-Disorders/what-does-a-positive-RNP-antibody-mean/show/1028103

Hope this helps.  I wonder what prompted my neuro to request this.  Are you having out of the ordinary symptoms?