Do you think it could be lupus?!


Question: Do you think it could be lupus!?
I've had weird symptoms for years and no real solution!. I've been looking around and it looks like Lupus might be the problem!. If any of you have experience with Lupus, I would love to hear what you think!.

I'm going to a rhum!. in a few weeks, but I would like to hear what you have to say!.

About me:
female
30 years old
5-5
165 pounds
high bp - on beta blockers
high cholesterol
BAD hypothyroid (took generic synthroid for a few months and my TSH was at 54!.1)
Chest pain all the time
Terrible fatigue!
Bad nausea most of the time
Mental cloud
Memory getting terrible
Diagnosed with dry eyes (sucks!)
Had stroke (TIA) few months ago
Had complete hysterectomy about 4 years ago
Had 1 miscarriage
ANA many years ago was positive with 1:40 homo
C-Reactive was high (don't remember number)
Knees and fingers have been really hurting
Bad headaches
Good RBC
WBC is around 4500
Not sure about the butterfly rash because I have red hair and my face is red often anyway!.

Any thoughts!?
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Answers:
ANA titers are not indicative of lupus disease activity!. 10 million Americans have a positive ANA but only 1!.5 million have lupus!. Of the 1!.5 million who have lupus, 5% will have a negative ANA!. ANA numbers are 0, 40, 80, 160, 320 and represent how many times your blood had to be diluted before they got a sample with no anti-nuclear antibodies!.

Ask about your blood pressure medication!. Some BP meds and also tuberculosis meds can cause drug induced lupus that goes away when the drug is withdrawn!.

Some lupus patients have antiphospholipid antibody syndrome which causes clots, miscarriages, minor and major strokes!. Your doctor can test for these clotting factors!.

The dry eyes are probable Sjogren's!. This should be take very seriously!. If it is treated early and aggressively you can usually preserve tear and saliva glands!. Ask your doctor about it!.

You do not describe the pain in your knees and fingers!. When you go to the doctor be prepared to tell him or her when this pain began, how often it occurs, what makes it better, what makes it worse, and what time of the day it is the worst!.

Lupus patients often get pleurisy!. The butterfly rash is very distinctive, you would notice it even if you are a red head!. Not everyone gets the malar rash!. I have never had it but I have systemic lupus with major organ involvement (heart, lungs, bone marrow, kidneys)!.

Taking all that into consideration, please realize that thyroid could cause most of those symptoms!. Or lupus could affect your thyroid!. You might have Graves' or Hashimoto's thyroiditis!.

Your job as a patient is to provide information, unbiased information, to the doctor!. If you come in after having diagnosed yourself the chances are very good that the rheumatologist will blow you off as a kook!. They do not like it when patients diagnose themselves!. Give the doctor the facts, just the facts!.

Get in the habit of keeping copies of all your medical tests!. You have a right to have them!.

Go to the link below, click on "about lupus" and scroll down until you see the link for "how lupus is diagnosed" for more information!. Www@Answer-Health@Com

Listen to House MD!.
The symptoms always appear like Lupus!. But as House says it is never Lupus! (So don't worry)

I would get them to draw their own conclusions, the more people do a thorough check through on you the quicker you will know what is going on!. Your reg!. doc could always have missed something!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

YOU SHOULD SEE A SPECIALIZES DOCTOR ,DONT WAIT !.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Ask your doctor!. It sounds more like a bad heart than Lupus!. My mother has SLE (one of the 4 major forms of Lupus and one of the most dangerous) and you have only 4-5 similar symptoms!. Talk to your doctor!. You're just working up your blood pressure by worrying about the cause!. With medical science, Lupus is now much more easily detected than it was 20 years ago!. The ANA is not always a reliable indicator!. Almost all of the symptoms listed can be attributed to poor circulation, diet, (possibly diabetes), heart virus!.!.!.and so on!.

Seek professional medical advice and bring along your medical chart with history of tests!. Www@Answer-Health@Com





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