please help little hapeewendy

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hey guys, I need some of your expertise here....

auto immune disorders etc were never my strong suit in school, I muddled thru like many of us did but didnt care too much about all of it until now..

Few months ago I had weird onset of uncontrolled fevers , went to family MD was told I had a virus,okay fine two weeks after that, terrible onset of arthritis in the small joints of my hands

positive ANA titre of 1:320

speckled pattern consistant with SLE

family MD sent me to a rheumatologist who ran a whole bunch of tests , that have quite honestly frazzled me

heres the deal if you could shed some light I would really appreciate it

latest bloodwork results

ENA antibody screen - borderline positive

RO/SSA antibodies - borderline positive

Centromere - Positive

Scleroderma 70 antibody - borderline positive

so I went from a diagnosis of lupus *which I was just coming to terms with* to now potentially scleroderma

what has me so confused is the speckled pattern of the ANA smear....that usually doesnt happen with scleroderma does it?

and my anti dsDNA came back negative, which again is usually positive in lupus

I'm thinking scleroderma now, am going to my specialist tomorrow but being that I felt brushed off by him initially any input you guys could offer would be most appreciated

(really shoulda paid more attention in this unit in school!)

cheers

happeewendy............i love you.......

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you guys are the bestest :p

*hugs all around*

thanks for all the informative, yet not overwhleming information , and the support

sometimes its nice to have a place where people can emphathize with you , as opposed to just giving out sympathy, like ohhhh you pooooooor thing

honestly If I could get my pic on here as my avatar you would see that a.I really am happy

and b.look healthy

its just weird how this all happend, I was put off by a dr saying I just had a virus yadda yadda etc

oh well, there goes my big run for healthiest woman in canada (hah I woulda NEVER got it anyway, I am far from complete health)

once again ur all great!

cheers

Wendy

ps micro - my sassy friend I love you baaaaaaaaaaaack! ok thats enough emotion for now :)

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ohmygoodness I just read my last post and The themesong for cheers just ran thru my head!

sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name

la la la la

and theyre always glad you came

la la la

do do do forget the rest but thats what this reminds me of

you guys are my cliffs and norms!

:)

edited because I felt I needed one more la on the first part

and due to my poor spellering :)

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.....and you will see people are all the same........and everybody knows your name.......

norm.....xxxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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