Re: New to list and feel like hell....

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> >

> > ANA SCR.....Borderline

> > Result Comment:

> > ANA TITER....1:80

> > ANA PATTERN...Speckled

> > Interpretations:

> > REFERENCE RANGE

> > Negative: <=1:40 TITER

> > Borderline =1:80 TITER

> > Positive: >=1:160 TITE

> >

> > INTERPRETATION:

> >

> > Pattern: Homogenous (Smooth); Antigen Detected: DNA (DSS, SS,N),

> > Histone; Suggested Disease Association: High Titers - SLE

> >

> > Speckled: Antigen Detected: SM, RNP, SCL-70, SS-A/SS-B; Suggested

> > Disease Association: SLE, MCTD, Scleroderma, Sjogrens

> >

> > Nucleolar: Antigen Detected: SCL-70, PM-1/SCL; Suggested Disease

> > Association: High Titers

> > Scleroderma

> >

> > Cemtromere: Antigen Detected: Centromere; Suggested Disease

> > Association: PSS w/Crest Syndrome Variable

> >

> > DNA AB (EIA)... 19

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> > My question to all that, it appears to me that I am in the

> beginning

> > stages of Scleroderma.

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> I'd be willing to guess that this will greatly deminish or go away

> if you were on enough thyroid so that your immune system could work

> properly, since this is an auto-immune condition. There have been

> cases of auto-immune diseases that stop in their tracks from proper

> thyroid treatment.

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These results do NOT indicate scleroderma. At the very most they

indicate a borderline titre with a speckled pattern, which is not very

specific. If your condition warrants, and the doctor believes you

have a rheumatic disorder, more specific tests need to be done - but

scleroderma is not a suspect based on the above report.

Winona