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More than one auto immune disease?

Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Nov 30, 2016 | Replies (17)
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@colleenyoung

Nanke, seronegative is not a condition, but rather a description. Seronegative means that tests don’t show the presence of specific antibodies in your blood. For example in the case of rheumatoid arthritis seronegative RA doesn't have anti-cyclic citrullinated peptides (anti-CCPs), whereas seropositive RA does. Here's some more information http://www.arthritis.org/about-arthritis/types/rheumatoid-arthritis/articles/what-type-do-you-have.php

In the summary that your doctor wrote, what was the word that followed seronegative?

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nanke99 | @nanke99 | Sep 5, 2016

Hi @colleenyoung, thanks for your reply! this is exactly what she wrote:

seronegative
vs fibro

with the 'vs fibro' in italics, and no word after seronegative. I have assumed seronegative RA, because we discussed it a little and that had been a previous diagnosis at this clinic when I was seen by a resident. Also I have been having severe joint pains, mostly symmetrical, in hand, wrist, elbows, etc and basically fitting the symptom profile. Thanks for the link.

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