chl_hobbs
08-06-12, 10:02
Hi all,
I havent been on here for months, Ive been doing really well. Ive been seeing a clinical psych for the PTSD (after my routine op went wrong+he cut my spleen+an ITU admission plus 2 blood transfusions), and am on citalopram and pregabalin for anxiety/depression.
On Sunday I woke up with a pain in my left side (lower abdomen) and I started passing loose black stools. I rang urgent care and they sent a paramedic to look at it and me. My obs were fine but he sent me into a+e anyway due to the stools. They did blood tests and xrays anad took temp (37.8) but couldnt do any endoscopy testing as it was a bank holiday... so i was kept in for observation. I left on the monday night after they said my bloods were fine, and id stopped passing black stools. I received no explanation for what happened, and went home.
I was still in pain (left sided lower abdominal pain-twisty feeling), felt bloated and had heartburn so went to my (brilliant)GP yesterday. He looked at my bloods from a+e and mentioned that my Blood Protein was up. He said the range is something like 15-80 and mine was 87. He then looked at my other bloods and they were all fine, WBC / Platelets were fine and my Haemoglobin was 13.8 (which it has NEVER been, even before my op - usually 11-12). He said that I could have been dehydrated when they took the blood which could have raised the HB and the Blood Proteins. I had only had a coffee at 8am that day, and the bloods were taken at 1pm. Id passed a lot of stools.
I keep reading online that high blood protein can mean all these awful things - like leukaemia/myeloma/hepatitus etc etc and Im really upsetting myself. I hate that the blood proteins werent normal. I feel tired, dizzy, my whole head hurts and I almost had a full blown panic attack last night. Ive got a retest on Tuesday but Im scared i cant wait that long - but thats the earliest they have.
Why was the blood protein levels up? Is 87 really bad? Please, does anyone have any experience/knowledge about this? I have a little girl and I cant spend the whole weekend thinking I might faint because of this... So scared.
Charlotte x
I havent been on here for months, Ive been doing really well. Ive been seeing a clinical psych for the PTSD (after my routine op went wrong+he cut my spleen+an ITU admission plus 2 blood transfusions), and am on citalopram and pregabalin for anxiety/depression.
On Sunday I woke up with a pain in my left side (lower abdomen) and I started passing loose black stools. I rang urgent care and they sent a paramedic to look at it and me. My obs were fine but he sent me into a+e anyway due to the stools. They did blood tests and xrays anad took temp (37.8) but couldnt do any endoscopy testing as it was a bank holiday... so i was kept in for observation. I left on the monday night after they said my bloods were fine, and id stopped passing black stools. I received no explanation for what happened, and went home.
I was still in pain (left sided lower abdominal pain-twisty feeling), felt bloated and had heartburn so went to my (brilliant)GP yesterday. He looked at my bloods from a+e and mentioned that my Blood Protein was up. He said the range is something like 15-80 and mine was 87. He then looked at my other bloods and they were all fine, WBC / Platelets were fine and my Haemoglobin was 13.8 (which it has NEVER been, even before my op - usually 11-12). He said that I could have been dehydrated when they took the blood which could have raised the HB and the Blood Proteins. I had only had a coffee at 8am that day, and the bloods were taken at 1pm. Id passed a lot of stools.
I keep reading online that high blood protein can mean all these awful things - like leukaemia/myeloma/hepatitus etc etc and Im really upsetting myself. I hate that the blood proteins werent normal. I feel tired, dizzy, my whole head hurts and I almost had a full blown panic attack last night. Ive got a retest on Tuesday but Im scared i cant wait that long - but thats the earliest they have.
Why was the blood protein levels up? Is 87 really bad? Please, does anyone have any experience/knowledge about this? I have a little girl and I cant spend the whole weekend thinking I might faint because of this... So scared.
Charlotte x