Unti about six months ago, it was the numbness that was bothering us. I broke my foot about a year and a half ago .Got up to go across the room and my feet just went backwards I couldn't feel them and realized too late, even after I fell it took a minute to feel it. And so the mris we're to check my spinal cord and my brain. We were thinking MS. My previous Dr told me there were no signs of it. The only thing that shows in my mri is a"tiny signal change to the right of the midline within the spiine" and retention cysts. I hav.Went to the er twice for my stomach and my previous primary Dr three times. He kept trying to tell me it was my flori, (because of the orbital cellulitis three weeks before, I'd been on a hurricane of antibiotics) but they testedthose at the Dr and that was one thing that was normal.
last time the er they said my left side of my abdomen was hard and swollen, but they couldn't help me, because I Went in for strep. (Second infection after orb. Cell.) No one has ran any test other than urine and stool.
I do have reynauds supposedly. My legs turn bright purple with bright red circles when I stand for more than five minutes without moving.
My wbc is usually normal, it wasonly high the time I went in for my stomach, However my netrophiles are always high. Bilirubin is usually 2.5/2.7. Lymph is always pretty low. Could this all be an autoimmune or blood disorder? .
I have an appointment tomorrow with an internist.
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"they have only done mris of my brain, he just knew it was neurological"
If you mean because of the parasthesia (numbness and tingling), that can be from other causes including even Lyme disease.
The dizziness can be from causes besides seizures, such as low blood flow or low oxygen.
One example of how complex things can be: because of intestinal damage that makes you not absorb nutrients good enough, you can have lots of problems that are offshoots of deficiencies.
Or maybe some deficiency in a part of your immune system gives you that "different infection every week" and so your neutrophils (and WBC) go high periodically. But then some people have conditions where their neutrophils just go high periodically.
A slightly high bilirubin can be high from slight liver damage, or from red blood cells getting destroyed in the blood stream, among other causes.
Possibly the best thing is to see a hematologist, and be prepared for a long period of diagnosis.
Or maybe everything originates in the gut. Why was the MRI done, the one that found the bulging disc? I had guessed that was done to look at the gut and found the disc by accident.
It's not unusual for patients with mystery conditions to hear "it's only all in your head". So ironically, it's lucky for you that you have some blood test results which are way out of range because that is clear evidence that something is really wrong.
E.g., neutrophils (absolute polymorphonuclear neutrophils) typically go high to fight bacteria or fungus. Very rarely, a person can have a leukemia of neutrophils. Or it could possibly be the immune system going wacky.
"Which the depression didn't come until my life started to suck because of being sick"
People with unusual immune conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome often say the same thing. It often takes years to get diagnosed.
"the only thing that obviously worsens the stomach symptoms is beer. Not hard liquor though"
Although there is now a very trendy anti-gluten craze which is ridiculous, the fact remains that some people do react badly to gluten. That might increase neutrophils. Does bread bother you? Or maybe it's the yeast in beer.
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By the way, an ER is not a good place to get a mystery condition diagnosed.
Abs mono: 1.1 (ref.11-.59)
Abs poly : 12.5 (ref 1.4-6.5)
Band:2 (5-11.1)
Lymph : 13 (24-44)
Poly :77 (36-66)
Mch:32.8 (27-31)
wbc: 15.9 (4.5-10.8)
Bilirubin:1.7 (0-1.2)
Occult blood result positive.