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I am a 24 year old caucasian female. I get a blood panel every year and nothing has ever been abnormal, until my last test done 10/13/2010. Albumin was 4.5.. My globulin level was 4.6. This seems very high from what I've seen on the internet. Anyways, nothing else was really weird. Calcium was 9.5. Reb blood cell counts and other tests did not indicate anemia. WBC was 5.7. RBC was 4.75. (My BUN was critically low at 4, and my creatinine was at the lowest normal # .06) There was no protein in my urine. For a long time, and I'm not sure how long, a year maybe 2, I have been having a dull pain in the area between my groin and hip. I guess my pelvis area. I always assumed it was a muscle pain but it just never goes away. I did yard work last week and it got worse and kind of radiated down my left leg. I also experience sporadic jolts of sharp pains in my skull, usually in the back of my right side or over my left ear. At the time of my blood draw I had been on the birth control Reclipsen for 1 month. The packaging says it can raise sex hormone binding globulin, thyroid binding globulin, and other binding globulins. I was also menstruating at the time and I think I had a touch of the flu or a cold.
My doctor didn't seem too concerned and just wants to re-test my protein and nitrogen December 29. He brushed off my groin area pain as a pulled muscle or something. 2 months away! I think I might go crazy between now and then.
I am a 24 year old caucasian female. I get a blood panel every year and nothing has ever been abnormal, until my last test done 10/13/2010. Albumin was 4.5.. My globulin level was 4.6. This seems very high from what I've seen on the internet. Anyways, nothing else was really weird. Calcium was 9.5. Reb blood cell counts and other tests did not indicate anemia. WBC was 5.7. RBC was 4.75. (My BUN was critically low at 4, and my creatinine was at the lowest normal # .06) There was no protein in my urine. For a long time, and I'm not sure how long, a year maybe 2, I have been having a dull pain in the area between my groin and hip. I guess my pelvis area. I always assumed it was a muscle pain but it just never goes away. I did yard work last week and it got worse and kind of radiated down my left leg. I also experience sporadic jolts of sharp pains in my skull, usually in the back of my right side or over my left ear. At the time of my blood draw I had been on the birth control Reclipsen for 1 month. The packaging says it can raise sex hormone binding globulin, thyroid binding globulin, and other binding globulins. I was also menstruating at the time and I think I had a touch of the flu or a cold.
My doctor didn't seem too concerned and just wants to re-test my protein and nitrogen December 29. He brushed off my groin area pain as a pulled muscle or something. 2 months away! I think I might go crazy between now and then.
myeloma causes a specific protein in the urine, that normal urine dipstick does not pick up. you need to do a 24 hour urine collection.
Ask for Serum electopherisis test, and immunofixation, it can tell you exactly what protein is in your blood.
You are very young to have myeloma. I know, because I was 32 when I was diagnosed with it, and I'm one of the youngest in my doctor (myeloma specialist)'s practice with it.
Ask for Serum electopherisis test, and immunofixation, it can tell you exactly what protein is in your blood.
You are very young to have myeloma. I know, because I was 32 when I was diagnosed with it, and I'm one of the youngest in my doctor (myeloma specialist)'s practice with it.
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