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Considering where you had your blood drawn, not knowing your age, I don’t want to scare you with what I’m about to say, Many times blood work can be deceiving, making you think there’s something wrong with you, only to find when you see a doctor, it wasn’t scary. I am not a doctor but have vast knowledge from being sickly since birth and I’m 78 now. All the things you quote could mean your body is trying to fight an invader, virus or bacterial, such as Covid or a variant. When looking at it with your age, 50 or above, you could be at the beginning of a serious problem like I am at 78, discovered at 73.

My blood has a paraprotein in it and was confirmed as being IgM immuglobulin. As you stated, there are IgA, IgG & IgM. IgM is the rarer of the three and the one I have. From much testing, it was determined that I have MGUS( Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance). A mouth full and bad news for me. You see, with more testing I am now classified as having Kappa light chain IgM, a precancerous condition. Simply put, my bad guys are looking for a home inside me to progress into full blown, the big C, cancer. That’s right, I’m already showing signs it’s progressing into NHL, (Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma) or worse, Waldenstrom Macroglobulemia. So you can see, the things your blood test shows, so does mine and the numbers are much higher. It’s strange that your test results weren’t flagged by the lab technician, which could be good, thinking inflammation in your body and not a precancerous condition. So think positive, me, well that’s another story, I’m looking for a grave marker.

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Hi there! Thank you for your response. I am only 34, and have rheumatoid nodules in my knees, but they haven't confirmed RA or anything yet. The testing I mentioned was actually flagged red.