I went for my first paid visit to the medical study place yesterday. Woo hoo! I’m $30 richer! After answering a few more questions verbally, I filled out a bunch of questionnaires. Several of the pages asked me questions about my “morningness” or “eveningness”. I’m definitely a morning person.
I also heard the results of my blood test. My cholesterol has gone down since my last test. It was 218 before. Now it’s 212. Awesome! They also said something about my “anti-nuclear antibody test” being 1 to 40. “A high number would mean something like Lupus”. Yikes! Do I have Lupus? After checking on The Internets, I see that I don’t. The normal score is 1:40.
Then they gave me my pills. I am to take two of them every morning with food. They’re so tiny. Maybe I should take four, just to be safe.
I’ve had an ANA test also! It was back when I felt like a medical mystery and had 6 different doctors looking at me at once. I’d get a phone call from one, and have to stop and think about what that doctor was for. Egad, I was a mess!
When my daugher was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis at age 21 months, she also had an ANA test. Since she was “ANA positive” it was likely she would develop eye involvement (iritis) as a lovely add-on to her JRA diagnosis. She did. Sooooo – I don’t like those words “anti-nuclear antibody.” Stupid JRA, stupid ANA.
PS – but she has GREAT doctors!!!!
I’m so glad your daughter has great doctors – that makes all the difference is the world.
That’s so much for a child that young. How are you guys doing with it? How old is your daughter now? My heart goes out to you.
They look like mints! Yummy, mood-altering mints!
You would never get along with Garfield. Apparently he hates mornings.
Karla, what was wrong with you?
Now that I think about it – I had that test twice. Both times were looking for a blood clotting disorder; the first time was after my sister died from pulmonary emboli, the second time it was part of 7 tests after my second miscarriage. 20 vials of blood for all those tests!
Turns out I had slightly elavated ANA levels and I’m compound heterozyous for the MTHFR mutation. My staff of doctors at the time included a GP, an OB, an RE (fertility doc), an orthopedic surgeon (I had just badly sprained both ankles with one fall down the stairs), a regular surgeon (also just found out my gall bladder was bad) and a hematologist.
End result – I have tendancies to clotting problems so I was on a ton of meds while pregnant with Anna. My OB then found a clot in the placenta so now I’m on low dose aspirin and a compound vitamin supplement of B6, B12 and folic acid for life, in an effort to avoid clotting problems.
Sorry, I guess that was probably more info than you were planning on hearing.
Holy cats! I’m glad they fixed it. They fixed it, right????
We hope so!
I think you just take two, but take them with a quarter. It could be your retirement plan.
Good idea! But, you better tell Tara and Tim, they think that THEY are Uncle Brad’s retirement plan :).
What do you mean “could be”? Are you not familiar with our school’s complete quality coverage for life, health, dental, vision, fire, hurricane, tornado, tsunami, death, dismemberment, disability, and retirement? A quarter IS his retirement!!
Junkie … may we call you Alice?
(One pill makes you larger & one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you, don’t do anything at
all—Go ask Alice …
And if you go chasing rabbits …
And congrats on the chol. #’s, must be the flaxseed, or that stuff you tell us is flaxseed.