ANA Status Changes and Abnormalities

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Hello,I just received some labs and my ana has switched from negative to borderline positive, and they also detected antibodies to parietal-gastric cells, the latter ones are linked to pernicious anemia and b12 defficiency, these tests were ordered by me as i ran a full screen from the hart study because my neurologist said i had enought tests. Last time i checked in february my ana was negative, i'm really scared im developing something sinister ...
 
Well I'm positive for ANA and that means nothing deadly! Both my nuero and rhumetologist aren't thinking twice about it! most people will actually test positive! This is the last thing I would worry about! It's not ALs
 
Vitamin b12 deficiency indeed causes twitches. I hear that a lot if not all people that get vitamin b12 injections really shape up after a few injections. :)
 
I was never worried about als, only ms, lyme and autoimmune. Unfortunately i have developed some pretty freaky symptoms since october even for bfs and they're spreading, not remitting, the pain and burning in my left side of face is all over my head, neck and a bit of my left chest now, and it's nearly constant, i think i get relief from it about 2-3 hours a week, and even then i don't know if i get used to it or it's gone. I read some studies about face burning and what i have sounds a lot like trigeminal neuropathy (not neuralgia). Mind you it's connected to autoimmune , so i got twitching that's probably autoimmune, face that's autoimmune, now positive ana, very low vitamin d, antibodies to some weird cells i never heard of it's really hard to believe it's an error or that it has no clinical relevance ... Around 5% of the population have positive ana and half of that has autoimmune disease, and considering that the doctors said i'm fine and now i get this + the anemia stuff really makes me wonder what the hell to believe, but i'll believe you and my family, you're the only ones close to me on this journey, right now doctors and their opinion mean 0 to me. I would go to hart to get treatment/diagnosis unfotunately he's no longer among us. I just wish the first doctor that saw me when i got the shingles 2 years ago would have sent me for a vitamin d test, i'm really curious if i was deficient since then, 25 year old guys don't just get shingles from thin air, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine. Sorry for the rambling, the pain in my face and this stuff really tripped my mojo. I was thinking before i spent 500 bucks on tests, hey man, you're nuts, everything will be negative you stupid hypochondriac ... Well, apparently there are cases when you have to take your health into your own hands, i just hope we won't go from "you have nothing" to "we can do nothing". Sorry if i trip anybody's recovery via the i'm anxious route, it's true for most of us, hell it's true for me, but my face is burning for a reason, and that's not anxiety. I just hope it's something manageable, i already made peace i won't be like i was before all this *beep* started. Thanks for the support.
 
If you don't mind my asking where were your shingles located? I had them also a few years ago and found out that many younger people get them. I knew a sixteen year old that had a severe case. Mine were located in my mid trunk sections so they banded from my back to my side and to my stomach. Sometimes I wil get nerve pain from them even after they are long gone called post herpatic neuralgia. If you had them on your face this may be what is happening. ANA can be elevated for a lot of reasons including some small inflamation like a bruise for a cut or if you work out. My doctor told me to avoid these things before the test as they could cause a false positive. He was going to repeat the test if it wasn't negative because it is very common to get a false positive. Hopefully this is what happened and if your doctor wasn't worried than there is nothing to worry about. Hope this helps.Mary
 
When this first started I decided to take better care of myself.I was also taking an anti-seisure drug that required period blood tests.Anyway at one point they found one of my blood results (unrelated to the anti-seisure drug) was out of range. I saw my primary care doctor who told me to follow up every two weeks until it went back into range.After about 6 weeks (3, two week tests) it went back to normal. I did not change anything else in my lifestyle. My primrary doctor did not tell me to change anything.I later asked my primary doctor what occured to make it go out of range. He admitted he had no idea.Since then I have decided that the human body is increably complex. That the doctors can tell some stuff. But a lot off stuff they do not know. I guess my point is I would not jump to any conclusions from a blood test. It should only be looked at in addition to other things: discussion with the doctor, other tests, etc.
 

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