Just an update as I went to my Ears, Nose and Throat Specialist today and he is going to try to get me into an RA Specialist sooner than August 22nd. Also, we discussed my ongoing remission of symptoms and he thinks I could possibly be suffering from migraine related headaches that are a lesser nature form than Temporal Arteritis but an offshoot of it. He said that I should be having a Fluorescein Angiography, where hey inject a special dye into your bloodstream and it lights up all the small vessels in the eye. He also told me that only after seeing the RA Specialist would the need for a temporal artery biopsy be necessary as it could possibly be something else in the vascular nature and if that were the case, I would have to see a Neurologist. Two of my blood tests which were done with the extensive panel of blood work last month when I self-admitted thru the ER had him more concerned than my Sed. Rate of 29 and they were an ANA SCREEN WITH REFL...POSITIVE AND A CO2 TEST RATE HIGH AT 25 mmol/L, BUT WITH BOTH OF THESE TESTS HE DID SAY THEY ALSO COULD BE A FALSE POSITIVE. So, again I really don't know anything with certainty regarding my status with TA but am so thankful that there has been a remission for the past two weeks and counting. If it were ultimately diagnosed as Migraine headaches specific to the temporal area I would be thankful!
Will let everyone know when I do hear more but that take a while unless I can get in sooner than August 22nd for another RA Specialist.

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