Anne TootillTo Be or Not to Be a Mother -Part Three
February 26th 2007 18:12
I saw the doctor for the results of my allergy tests. According to him I was allergic to just about everything. And he’d tested for lots and lots of allergies. He called me universally allergic. Translation…I was a total mess.
And since he wasn’t just an allergist but an internist as well he had also performed other tests. One of them, the ANA - I think it stands for anti- nuclear antibody or something like that - came back very bad, he said. Well maybe he said very elevated but after he explained further apparently the two descriptions were interchangeable. According to him this test is one of the indicators of the presence of an autoimmune disease such as Rheumatoid Arthritis or Multiple Sclerosis. At that point he didn’t want to commit to anything until he’d taken more blood and sent it out for testing.
But until the tests came back he wanted to start me on a few things to see if they helped reduce my massive sensitivity to…everything. One, he wanted to set me up with a nutritionist to try lower my sensitivity to foods. Two, allergy shots to help with environmental sensitivities. Three, therapy sessions to lessen my stress level which in turn should help lower my sensitivity level and four, vitamin I.V.s to build up my immune system.
Then he handed me an inhaler, told me to use it three times a day, sent me to his lab to have the nurse draw more blood and then I went home, hopefully to start on my road to recovery.
And since he wasn’t just an allergist but an internist as well he had also performed other tests. One of them, the ANA - I think it stands for anti- nuclear antibody or something like that - came back very bad, he said. Well maybe he said very elevated but after he explained further apparently the two descriptions were interchangeable. According to him this test is one of the indicators of the presence of an autoimmune disease such as Rheumatoid Arthritis or Multiple Sclerosis. At that point he didn’t want to commit to anything until he’d taken more blood and sent it out for testing.
But until the tests came back he wanted to start me on a few things to see if they helped reduce my massive sensitivity to…everything. One, he wanted to set me up with a nutritionist to try lower my sensitivity to foods. Two, allergy shots to help with environmental sensitivities. Three, therapy sessions to lessen my stress level which in turn should help lower my sensitivity level and four, vitamin I.V.s to build up my immune system.
Then he handed me an inhaler, told me to use it three times a day, sent me to his lab to have the nurse draw more blood and then I went home, hopefully to start on my road to recovery.
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