Positive Ana - No Dx For It - But Other Symtoms Posted: 10-13-04 16:01pm
Hi my name is katie. I am 36 years old.
When I was a junior in high school, I had
scarlet fever (i think that it was just a
mild case). Then when I was 18, I had
mononucleosis.
In the past few years I have had
significant hair loss. I asked my primary
doctor who told me to go to a
dermatologist. She did some lab tests to
check my hormones. They all came back
normal. She told me that she didn't know
what was wrong and gave me take this
medicine (spirolactene - which I would
have to take for the rest of my life) and
come back to see her in 3 months. I
wasn't satisfied with that, so I went to
another dermatologist for a 2nd opinion.
He ran some more lab tests, ana, anti-dna,
etc. My ana came back positive with a
speckled pattern, titre of 1:160. Because
of the positive ana he sent me to a
rheumatoid dr to check for connective
tissue disorder.
I have had chronic low back pain for over
10 years, had my share of sinus
infections, ear infections, bronchitis,
etc. I have been pregnant 8 times, with 6
successful pregnancies (no complications).
No explanation for the 2 miscarriages (
both at 10-12 weeks, dx by u/s because no
heart beat was found).
The rheumatoid dr doesn't thing that I
have a connective tissue disorder, but
ordered more test to check , of which, I
don't have the results yet.
Does any of this tie together at all. Or
are these just separate things that are
going on with my body?
I would greatly appreciate any help with
this? Any suggestions? The one thing
that all the dr's agree on, is that my
hair is very thin.
