Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Rheumy update

Well I finally had my follow up appointment with the rheumatologist. He said he wasn't concerned with my sed rate since it wasn't extremely high. The CH50 being high didn't matter because they look for low results. My rheumatoid factor came back positive though. He said it was barely positive so he called it borderline. He said he thought something was going on, but he's not sure what so I'm supposed to go back in six months to see if my numbers have gotten worse. No concrete answers again. He also mentioned that like 4% of the population has these results and no disease so I could be part of that percent.

My stress level has been through the roof unfortunately. Since going full time I now have to be able to scrub. This has been a major area of stress for me in the past and nothing has changed. Hopefully once I do one c/s then I can stop freaking out about it.

I see the RE in a week. I'm strangely excited for it.