The Results?

My results are in, and I don't know precisely what they mean until I talk to my doctor in a week and a half. My blood counts are within normal limits, and my Lyme test is negative. My anti-nuclear antibody test shows a low titer of positivity.

When someone gets a result like this that makes no sense, what do they do? Google! Unfortunatly I don't really care for any of my options. I tried to self-diagnose myself by researching my potential options. I don't know that I would pin-point one of them though.

My options, if I'm reading my test results correctly (keep in mind I am not a doctor, nor the daughter of a doctor, nor anything resembling a medical professional... I simply googled the statement found on my test results...) are:

Lupus, Sjorgen's, mixed-connective tissue disease, Sjorgren's, scleroderma, polymyositis, and rheumetoid arthritis.

I have some symptoms from each of these, but not every symptom of any one of them. I don't think it's scleroderma though. I could easily see it being any of the others. I question rheumetoid arthritis because it doesn't affect my hands and fingers nearly as much as my other body parts, though in the last couple of weeks it's affected my hands more than ever.

I fear it being Lupus because that doesn't sound like a fun disease at all. None of them sound fun, I don't really like my options. There's no sense in getting riled up too early because I don't actually have any clue what my results mean... and any of these things will require further testing for a postive diagnoses. On that 'happy' note, I'm going to go stick my head in the sand for another week and a half until I meet with my rheumatologist again. I'll be sure to keep you updated.