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Blood tests

Hello all, my husband is 10 months out from his IMRT radiation and for the past week every now and then he gets a little burning sensation at the start of the urination. It’s every now and then but not every day. He’s on monthly Firmagon injections. He had a blood test on Thursday when he got his injection

Has anyone been charged with dui while driving and taking prescribed adderall. Also, is there a certain amount of the drug found in a blood test which is considered to cause impairment?Thanks for any insight.

I want to post my recent blood test results. Can anyone help by giving me instructions? Thank you!

After rapid weight gain three years ago, and feeling generally odd, I was diagnosed with Hypothyroidism. I am taking 75mcg daily of Levothyroxine, this was originally 50mcg, after contacting the GP as I still had various symptoms, in February this year, a blood test revealed a need for an increase.

hello this morning I have pains in both my knees my arms don’t move very well and the fingers on my right hand are swollen and painful. I seem to be existing on painkillers. Steroids didn’t work including the injection of steroids that I had four weeks ago. My rheumatologist doesn’t want to put me straight

The only real result was the ANA at 1:640, but the additional auto-immune tests were negative (image attached). (Note: the Nuffield blood tests don't come with any medical advice before or after, you just get sent the results).

I had blood tests taken by my GP for a non-CLL reason, but it showed details I have not seen before on the blood results from my oncologist. It showed "moderate" smudge cells which, internet has told me, is normal for CLL. But it also showed "teardrop cells 1+".

After 4 years of PMR, I have reduced (with 2 flares along the way) my Pred to 5mg using DSNS at half mg intervals. Sadly, I am now but a shell of my former self, with zero energy and constant (though moderate) pain in both wrists and upper arms. Approaching my 90th birthday in two months, I sought medical

Hi all, I have had GPA for over 3 years and am on methotrexate and prednisolone among many others. I have never been offered Rituximab although did have a blood test for suitability but nothing came of it. My ANCA levels are rising again having also been on mycophenolate and others but had to stop because

Diagnosed Gleason 4+3 Had RALP and doing ok. Do have ED issues but trying with meds. Pathology after surgery showed that Doctor removed everything except showed features such as PIN, cribriform and intraductal. So according to this reoccurrence is high but I don’t know. Seeing Doctor for follow up

Well guys as you know I went for my pre op assessment today and I'm shocked and confused and the bp done weight height BMI all OK apart from elevated blood pressure then was asked questions etc then had tummy prodded to be told I'm high risk for surgery no explanation nothing gotta have blood test and

The Endocrinologist has requested certain blood tests and The serum cholesterol result was 194 on theb18th Feb and 246 on 1st March, both taken at 9am before taking my morning dose of prednisolone.

So I stopped the HRT alendronic acid and calcium and waited a month before taking the medicheck full blood test. Felt better but still struggling with weight BUT NOT CRYING anymore 😂😂 . All seems normal according to them but no idea about ranges. Only one antibody thing I the red. I'll try and upload

Hi, for the past month I have seriously been changing my diet after doing a lot of googling and my eGFR was at 27. Looking into everything I put in my mouth so unless it was hidden ..no salt , no red meat, potato’s and dairy ,some of these products did sneak in but overall hardly any. I increased my

Hi Brothers and Sisters Had blood test late last week Been told OK with organs Reading my results my white blood cells were recorded as 16.4 then retested 9.4 waiting on call from Dr's to discuss been told after 2pm tomorrow Finally Started Councilling yesterday my wife's ears and brain can now

Hello beautiful girls, long time ago maybe not so long 4 months ago I gave birth to my beautiful son, who born sleeping. I didn't know why this happened. I came back to my country make so private test .did some research online.I did plenty of test and I have factor V Leiden , which it means I have thrombophilia

Hi all, new here and hoping for some advice. About 8 years ago I was diagnosed with B12 deficiency and was prescribed tablets. A further blood test showed no improvement so started on injections. Negative test for PA. I was having 3 monthly injections and then blood test showed folate deficiency so

Here I am @day 55 post transplant! Still on a weekly visit to Addenbrookes and now have my Hickman line removed. Most blood results are good but a recent chimerism blood test has shown peripheral blood is @ 98% donor (which is very good) but T-cells are only @7% donor, therefore my consultant has advised

Hello 24/08/23, I changed my medicine(Thyroid-S) from 22T batch to new batch named 24T01001. Also I started to take 2 brazil nuts maybe since then and my blood test results are getting worse. I have no idea why this happend. Should I try 23T batch? Thank you sincerely for your time and support.

I am not sure but let’s hope it was inflammation as the next scan is in 6 months and results 7… I am waiting to get my blood tests liver and kidney results to see if my liver is back to normal and take a difficult decision to restart a maybe less aggressive CAC protocol.