Bloods

[JJackdaw]

Hi everyone, I just wanted to know what HD1 is. I just had my results from dr and she said that HD1 had to be repeated in twelve months. Anyone know what it is? Everything else was fine.

[Rose54]

Hi

Can only suggest its High-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol

Rose

[JJackdaw in reply to Rose54]

Many thanks rose, nothing detrimental then🙂

[Rose54 in reply to JJackdaw]

No

Since being on Preds my Cholesterol has gone up and now have to take Statins to lower it .

Just make sure you watch your diet and have then retested in 1 year .

Rose

[JJackdaw]

Okay, thanks again rose.

[queenhermione]

I imagine they meant HDL - (hdl) Check out what healthy levels of HDL and LDL are here

mayoclinic.org/diseases-con...

PS I'd be a bit worried if my doctor didn't know it was l for lipids rather than 1!! Perhaps your finger slipped when typing...

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Confusing - and I'd be asking my GP for more details and what she means.

There IS a blood test called HD1 or plectin but I really can't think of any reason to do it in a PMR patient nor would I think it is a routine test. Have you had any blistering or other skin abnormalities?

[JJackdaw]

Dr said that my bloods were fine but she wants to do an hd1 test in a year, that's all I know. Funny you should mention skin abnormalities as for the past few months I've noticed little wart like lumps appearing on my shoulder, arm and heels, why, I don't know. I put some wart treatment on them but they went septic and turned into sores which don't seem to be healing. I bathe them with warm dettol water just to protect them from anymore infection. Will mention it to dr next time I see her. Many thanks for reply pmrpro.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to JJackdaw]

Did you not ask the doctor? I doubt Dettol water will make a lot of difference and you do need them looked at if they aren't healing. They may just be keratoses - something that can happen with taking pred (and anyway as you get older) but they may not be.

[tgca in reply to JJackdaw]

Interesting about the warts as I've developed a couple of them recently... pred to blame, or just one of those things???

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to tgca]

Depends what they look like - as I said, keratoses are common with pred.

[tgca in reply to tgca]

Thanks PMRpro... they have been identified as OK so far but I'll keep an eye on them.