[dean]

Do these blood test results indicate I have myeloma?

by dean on Sat May 24, 2014 8:27 am

Hello,

I'm new here and came across this site as I have also been looking to find out about my blood test results.

For several years I have had problems and over the last few months I have had more and more problems since a back operation last year! Since then I have had added pains to my neck body joints etc etc and ongoing headaches!

I have been put on tramadol [Ultram, Tramal] at present and it doesn't help for the pain. And I'm always so tired as well. I also have a heart problem as I miss a beat, so on medication, also have started having blood clots this year, which found out I have leisen mutation.

I have just had some blood test done, for electrophoresis. My results are:

Albumine 61.5%
globulines alphal 1. 3.8%
globulines alphal 2. 9.7%
globulines beta1 6.2%
globulines beta2 5.6%
globulines gamma 13.2%
rapport albumine / globulines 1.60

Also I'm high on these: transaminase alat (sgpt) 75 UI/1

The doctor ordered these test as he was wondering if I don't have rheumatoid which is negative.

Any advice regarding the results would be great!

Thank you,
Dean

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[Multibilly]

Re: Do these blood test results indicate I have myeloma?

by Multibilly on Sat May 24, 2014 9:37 am

Hi Dean,

Welcome to the forum.

If your question is whether or not you think multiple myeloma might be involved, you should look at your serum electrophoresis results (this is the same report that you took these numbers from) and look for a separate sentence in there that mentions the level of "monoclonal protein", "paraprotein", "M-protein", "M-spike" (they are all the same thing). It very well might say none is present, which would likely mean multiple myeloma is not involved. If you've discussed this report with your doc, he would almost have certainly mentioned this to you if some were present.

There is also another test that he might have run called a serum immunofixation test that would have flagged if any monoclonal protein was present in your blood.

The presence of monoclonal protein is the key thing to look for if you are suspecting multiple myeloma.

See this link for what a high transaminase level might mean:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevated_transaminases

"Possible causes for high ALT levels are liver inflammation (hepatitis A, B, C, Infectious mononucleosis, acute viral fever, alcohol, pancreatic disorder), injury to muscles (trauma, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, acute kidney failure), and many toxins and drugs"


Hope this helps.

[dean]

Re: Do these blood test results indicate I have myeloma?

by dean on Sat May 24, 2014 10:53 am

Hello,

Thankyou for that information, i was looking my results, and there isnt anything there written down for that! so i imagine he didnt test for that at the time! i only got the results back today! and have not see the doctor yet as he is away at the moment for another week!

Thankyou once again!