crystal,
My dad has alot things but is such a strong old school man, he wont go to the docters unless he is so bad he ends up in the er! But he has had shingles, gout, and he has sarcoidosis of the lungs. He lost 25% of his lung capicity. He has sleep apnea and uses one of those things at night. He has bad arthritits, but He never talks about it. I see his hands and 2 fingers are growing apart. When he had the sarciodosis his entire body and joints swelled up! he has it under control but stress makes it worse and is what brought it on, as he was under huge stress when he got sick. I went to his rhuemy who is the chief guy at the hosp. he was the one who thought I had ankloysing spondylitits. He measured my back when I went in and it did not bend as much as it should. At that time I had aches and pains really bad and all over. In my feet, ankles, knees, hands, fingers, wrists, elbow. He ran blood work and I was HLA-B27 postive wich is the arthristis gene for Ankloysing, reiters(reacitve arthritis), and Psorasis arthritis. Only 8% of people test postive for this. SO when I did he did full x-ray on my back to look for the aklyosisng in the SI joints. I did not have any eviedence of it. (was thankful at the time, but I would take that over this). He said I have osteoarthritis. and reactive arthritis? (I am 36). It must run in family, my sister broke her hip at 35! He also ran test for sarcoid due to my dad. I was 3 points over normal and he did not think that was a big deal. He also ruled out lupus ( i did have mild elevated ana-speckled smooth pattern that has went to normal aftr colon infection) I am going back to have tests re-done to appease my neuro. MY neuro has ran all sorts of immune complex disorder tests that are fine. The only thing that I have still is elevated alt/ast liver enzymes and abnormally high b-12, not low. This can be indicative of nash, non-alcholohlic liver disease. When this started I had not had any alchohol for a year! because baby, then the colon infection lasted 3 months.
SORRY, you ask one quesion and I launch into this! I get a little long in the tooth sometime. This has always been a problem for me and know my son does the same thing to me! Paybacks are a b***!
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