[MeganY24]

Please help with lab work

by MeganY24 on Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:00 pm

I've been having trouble with back pain for the last 6 months. The only finding on X-ray was mild scoliosis. A month ago I started having upper abdominal pain and the ultrasound showed scarring on one of my kidneys along with a cyst. A week ago I began having strange episodes were my right leg gets cramped and goes completely numb. It has happened twice and it feels like someone has a tight band wrapped around my thigh/knee with a blow torch on the back of it. I spent the entire weekend waiting on my lab work to come back expecting to have lupus or MS but instead the only levels that were elevated were my BUN, BUN/creatinine ratio and my calcium, protein serum, and albumin were borderline high. My sodium level was also borderline low. I'm really trying not to over analyze this but everything I search comes up with multiple myeloma. Is it possible to have cancer if my white and red blood counts are well within range?

[terryl1]

Re: Please help with lab work

by terryl1 on Mon Mar 11, 2013 7:30 pm

Megan, please don't panic. You indicated that you had some borderline high results with several items...borderline high albumin is a good thing. Obviously, you need to be talking to your doctor about all of this, particularly, the kidney issue so everything can be investigated. However, you cannot draw a conclusion that you have multiple myeloma based on anything you have outlined...seriously.