After I got the phone call last Monday from the nurse saying I may have lupus, they scheduled me an appointment for that Thursday. I went in, they told me exactly what the nurse said on the phone. They said that my ANA's came back positive, and they also ran a test called a double stranded DNA test. It came back positive too. the Dr. said that 98% of positive double stranded DNA patients have lupus. They can't figure out why I don't have any symptoms. (I think it is because I am the 2% that doesn't actually have it) So along with the obvious signs of lupus, lupus also attacks your organs. Another confusing thing for the Dr.'s is that my SGOT levels came back normal this time. That is the first test I had that was high indicating that I may have heart, kidney, or liver damage. Well it came back normal this time meaning it was high due to surgery, that my organs are fine. So, I have no symptoms, and my organs are fine. The Dr. said he wanted to rule out all organs, so he ordered a colonoscopy for Monday the 20th. This is where it gets fun!! hahaha So Sunday, I had to do the colonoscopy prep....let me just say that was great fun....I am exactly 3 pounds full of sh......crap! hahaha Monday I went in for the colonoscopy. They sedated me so I could not remember a thing!! Seriously, it wasn't bad at all!! It took all of 20 minutes! All I remember was going back into the procedure room, they put something in my IV, I started to feel loopy....I remember telling the Dr. that he had a crappy job.....then nothing! After the procedure, the Dr. wheeled me out to Bryce. He told Bryce, "You have a shopper on your hands. All she talked about was Nordstrom's and Kneaders!" Bryce thought that was pretty funny!! (I say, it is obvious that I went to my happy places!!) Well the Dr. told us that I have a very HEALTHY colon! There was nothing wrong there either!! I told the Dr. , "condoms are 99.8% effective, and you hear of people getting pregnant all of the time off of condoms!! So there is definitely a chance that I could be this 2%" he didn't exactly know how to respond to that...... hahaha
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well i hope your right! :) That is funny what you told the DR.. Well when i had my colonoscopy i made them knock me out completely.. well Jake says the first thing out of my mouth when i came out of the anesthesia was .. BABE MY ASS HURTS!! LOL Pretty sad huh?? Take care and keep us posted!!
britt you make me laugh!!! that is really funnt - love the condom commemt to the doc, awesome!! i am so glad you are okay, that is a lot of crap to go through!!
You are a hoot! Sorry they are making you go through all of these tests. Thats never fun!
Well all of that testing and worrying is no fun, but at least your hilarious personality hasn't suffered!
That is pretty funny! How weird that the tests kept coming up positive. Glad nothing is wrong. :)
Wow, I guess it's been a long time since I've checked up on you. I can't believe all this has bee going on and I didn't even know. I'm so glad everything is Okay. I can't wait to come up. My kids have been talking about it all week.
I am such a crappy friend! (No pun intended;)) I had no idea this was going on. I guess I should check blogs more often. Glad you are healthy!
Kneaders is being built in Jordan Landing right now!
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