Hijikata
08-01-20, 08:06
Howdy all,
I started a new job as an elementary school teacher three months ago and ever since have been getting sick once a month, without fail, and it knocks me out for about a week. Obviously I wasn't too worried because working with kids, pretty much every first year teacher (I used to teach high school but this is still my first time teaching kids this young) gets sick all of the time. But I went to the doctor and let them know and they did a pretty big barrage of blood tests and I got a message saying to come back the test needs to be repeated, which I did today, but now I am going to be stressing about it all week!
Basically my blood test looked alright, I didn't get a print out deliberately so i wouldn't analyse every detail by myself, but there were two red flags.
My monocytes were 11.5 (I assume percent) which is elevated according the doctor. But the big one was my sIL-r2 blood test ,which is a tumour marker, was almost double the reference range marker (mine was 740, reference is like 438) and the doctor said this is quite specific for lymphoma and chronic myeloid leukemia. I honestly can't find that much detail about this particular test except for like case studies which I can't access. I've never even heard of it but now I'm stressing out!
Has anyone else ever had this particular blood test and how did it go?
Thanks in advance
Hiji
I started a new job as an elementary school teacher three months ago and ever since have been getting sick once a month, without fail, and it knocks me out for about a week. Obviously I wasn't too worried because working with kids, pretty much every first year teacher (I used to teach high school but this is still my first time teaching kids this young) gets sick all of the time. But I went to the doctor and let them know and they did a pretty big barrage of blood tests and I got a message saying to come back the test needs to be repeated, which I did today, but now I am going to be stressing about it all week!
Basically my blood test looked alright, I didn't get a print out deliberately so i wouldn't analyse every detail by myself, but there were two red flags.
My monocytes were 11.5 (I assume percent) which is elevated according the doctor. But the big one was my sIL-r2 blood test ,which is a tumour marker, was almost double the reference range marker (mine was 740, reference is like 438) and the doctor said this is quite specific for lymphoma and chronic myeloid leukemia. I honestly can't find that much detail about this particular test except for like case studies which I can't access. I've never even heard of it but now I'm stressing out!
Has anyone else ever had this particular blood test and how did it go?
Thanks in advance
Hiji