ana problem

[angeleyes3]

Ok I have been going through a lot over the past 2 or three years with a lot of symptoms and they have gotten worse over the years every doctor I saw would just do the normal blood work n always came up with nothing but maybe a uti or anemia iron def. I don't won't to go in to all my symptoms just yet but I will if someone is interested some of them is bladder problems wierd chills for years and pain has started all over off n on now I'm having. Flank pain and not peeing as much n it has a strong oder my kids r saying I stink and my breath they say does as well they r 3 so idk? Now I have a lot more symptoms and problems but it will take forever to finish I'm upset because all this time and doctors over the past year or so have only found a high ana in my blood work of 1.1280 and the only rhym. Doctor here that specializes in this and accepts Medicaid has turned me down n dosent won't to take me as a patient just based on the labs my famliy doctor sent with the referrali don't understand y or what I'm suppose to do y would they turn me down my Medicaid approved it? What could the doctor saw just based on simple labs from my doctor I'm so stressed n scared and I don't know what to do anymore I don't won't to just give up I'm worried I have lupus and my kidneys and much more are being affected what do I do?

[angeleyes3]

I'm sorry I think u must have miss read I do have a positive ana test it was 1:1280

[angeleyes3]

Ty for your thoughts it was good to finally hear from someone. Your r correct it is very frustrating. Especially when I'm having such a hard time finding a rhemytolist lol I can never spell that. I have been tested for  Chlamydia last year at this time it was negative and some of my same symptoms were also present at that time. But no one around here thought to check my ana. I was even sent to a cancer center to check for lymphoma. They said neg. I'm so worried n scared.

[Garth L Nicolson, PhD]

I realize that this can be frustrating, but in the absence of positive lab test results, most physicians wouldn't know which direction to go in your case.  I might suggest that you should be tested for one or more chronic infections (that might also explain a positive ANA test).  Candidates would be Mycoplasma species, Chlamydia pneumoniae, even Borrelia b.

Prof. Garth Nicolson