abnormal mark on lupus test

[becks33]

I am a 33 yr old woman who was basically healthy until this past summer in June.  I had went to my yearly check up and the nurses asked me if I felt ok. Yes I told them and they looked at me like I was crazy. It was about 100 + degrees out already and I had several nurses ask me was I sure I felt okay. My BP was normal heart rate about 110 and my temp was 101.6. I walked and talked fine. I didn't feel hot or anything. A month passed, felt fine and returned for my results of my tests. Again, I was asked several times do I feel okay. Yeah I said. BP was normal as was heart rate and temp was 100.8 a couple of weeks passed and everything hit like bricks. left side body numbess, ice cold foot on my left side, muscle pains and tingly feeling. Sometimes like pins and needles.Loss of circulation in my left side so my arms and leg felt asleep. muscle spasms that lasted days and sometimes so bad you could watch the muscle contract. Couldn't sleep at night felt dizzier in the dark, light headed, sick to my stomach, throwing up but throwing up on empty stomach, slight blurriness in left eye, extreme muscle weakness.I have the urge to move my arm or leg on left side at times when I have this odd warm prickly feeling in them. Sometimes I found it too hard to use my left arm to shampoo my hair, hold objects or drive with it. I had been feeling short of breath, coughing up "gunk", feeling anixous, hair loss, boughts of insomina, feeling like I was seeing things out of the corner of my left eye, more back pain than usual, feeling sick to my stomach everytime I needed to have a bowel movement, hard pressure in my stomach, headaches, unable to wear my hair in ponytails cause I would get headaches more often, sounds bothered me they echoed in my head, rashes on my body, raised dry red patches on arm and stomach. Those are the basics. I had finally several tests, xray showed lungs are clear, all my throyid tests are great, all blood tests are great, sugars normal, no arthritis, no lyme disease, not low on iron, vitiams great and had influenza tests which were normal. I had a lupus test finally and it said the pathologist tests appeared to be normal but showed a abnormality. my doctor gave me a exam for balance and such and said he needed to read over my history more and he'd call me to let me know what tests he thinks I should take.  My question is really what should I sort of expect with a lupus tests that reads abnormal and is mentioning MS as well as a possiablity within the range of my symptons since he mentioned that to me.

[becks33]

I had been wondering myself about flase neg. results. What seems to get and my doctors most is that these symptons affect really only my left side. I do have some slight twinges on my right but not as bad as left. It's like I have 2 different bodies joined together.

[Caryopteris]

Might be Addison's disease.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/addisons-disease/DS00361/DSECTION=symptoms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison's_disease

[TheLightSeeker]

Hey becks33, Welcome to the forum.
Unfortunately, your tests for serious infectious conditions would return mostly false negative results. If your doctor is not an LLMD and not dealing with IGENEX reference Labs you will be getting wrong results, undiagnosed or even worse mis-diagnosed. Your symptoms are consistent with Lyme Disease that mimics a long list of other conditions. Also Borrelia that causes Lyme's commonly co-exists with other pathogens such as pathogenic Mycoplasma.
If I were you, I would find an LLMD and request a complete Lyme, Mycoplasma and co-infection Panel, only through IGENEX Labs, as most of all other Labs are  incompetent and low quality returning inaccurate or false findings in the majority of cases!

There are many criteria to diagnose Lupus and a test that shows one unnamed abnormality does not constitute an acceptable criterion for dx purposes. It just sounds too vague. Lupus is very difficult to diagnose.
And the symptoms vary so widely from person to person.
That is why it's called the disease with a thousand faces.
You can do research on this, however most sites are very "medical"
driven, perpetuating the disease with emphasis on "disease management"
with various meds.


Whatever you do, just keep in mind 2 things: 1. That there many things you can do on your own outside the conventional medical system in order to strengthen your immune system, such as heavy metals detox, avoiding pro-inflammatory and oxidizing substances, taking quality supplements like Omega-3, B12 methylocobalamin, MCTs in the form of Coconut Oil (Virgin Organic) etc, nutrient dense healthy foods, proper breathing -normalbreathing.org- meditation and or Hypnosis.
2. Deal only with experts in the medical field,like Dr.Garth Nicolson at
immed.org (one of the top experts in Pathogenic Infectious Conditions)

You can reclaim your good health, but be very cautious how you approach
all this. There are a lot of people stuck for life with their conditions.
It does not have to be this way.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Take care.
Niko