Hi there,
Last year I had a positive ana of homogenous and mixed speckled pattern both with a titre of 1:1280. At the time I had a bunch of random symptoms including anemia, hair loss, dizziness, fatigue, fainting, headaches and nausea to name a few, I could barely stand up some days. I have had periods throughout the past 5 years where these symptoms come and go and had many tests but nothing ever eventuated until I had the positive Ana. I saw a rheumatologist who treated me with high dose steroids but my symptoms only 80% went away, he basically said that he doesn’t think it’s autoimmune related and to come back if I ever had symptoms again. My new GP retested my ANA which is now dense fine speckled pattern 1:2560. I am reading a lot of articles that DFS pattern can be clinically insignificant in “healthy individuals”. Can the other patterns go away or not show up if not currently in a ‘flare up’ or can they change? Just looking for some direction on where to go next with this information or weather I should be concerned. I have a few odd symptoms but I am not currently feeling as unwell as I have previously but have a few odd symptoms such as kidney/chest pain. any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you.