Blood Test results: Elevated Lymphocytes,ALT,AST,and LDH

[Study Patient]

I recently was rejected to be in a medical study after blood  test results came back out of the perameters of the test.I was informed I should see a doctor because my blood test results showed elevated levels of ALT(146),AST(56),LDH(199)and elevated lymphocytes(3.7).I tested negative for Hep B S Ag, Hep C Ab. I'm not a doctor and don't know what this means. I'll see a doctor soon to find out what this means, but if anyone could send me some information about this I would really appreciate it. I don't know if I should be extremely concerned about this or figure it to be a routine bump in the road. Thanks to anyone who can give me any information to work with.

[jmjm530]

I've had a number of ear problems on treatment including Otitis a few months ago. The one warning my ENT doctor told me was not to use cue-tips to clean my ears, or for that matter put anything into the ear canal as the risk of bacterial infection increases. This might be of special interest to people on HCV combo treatment who are more susceptible to bacterial infections than the general population.

-- Jim

[honey11]

I guess we have nothing to lose but a cotton ball...

[Study Patient]

I'd tend to side with kalio1 on this. I'm skeptical,but thanks for your time spent writting this Steve. I guess everyone will just have to read it themselves and decide.

[stevelord]

I dont put the cotton in my ear canal, but simply where one puts an ordinary ear plug for noise in the size of a small marble or so as explained in my long post so one need not worry about it getting into the ear canal.

Steve

[jmjm530]

Speaking of your long post, the one question I have is how you were able to post such a long post when their's a character limit on posts -- at least there was when I tried to post anything half as long as you did. Does this cotton ball thing give you powers the rest of us just don't have :)

-- Jim

[Study Patient]

It was once suggested to me that sleeping with earplugs can be a bad idea. What if the fire alarm goes off?