What Does My Lab Test Report Indicate?

Posted on Thu, 20 Jul 2017

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Thu, 20 Jul 2017 Answered on

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Question : I have had pages of symptoms and seen many specialists, each finding minor problems that they say are not the root cause, but odd test results...I was non-functioning for 7 yrs. I think, most have cleared, but others replace them

Answered by Dr. Dr. Ashok Kumar Choudhary (6 hours later)

Brief Answer:
It could be SLE

Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for using Healthcaremagic.

I read your query with keen interest and feel sorry for your suffering and inability of treating doctors in treating the problem adequately.

Many of the symptoms mentioned in the query can be explained on the basis of renal pathology and presence of ANA positive in middle aged female strongly suggests possibility of autoimmune disorder including systemic lupus erythematous (SLE).

In my opinion you need to contact a rheumatologist or immunologist (some countries have this speciality). In case your treating doctor retracting doctor after years of diagnosis I feel taking a second opinion from the same speciality doctor should be undertaken.

I hope this helps you.
Feel free to write back to me if you have more questions.
Thanks and regards.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar