Positive ANA: What might be the cause?

Hi Ana,

I understand. In June after a stomach bug, I became super itchy and broke out in hives, which I think is dermatographia. I started taking OTC anti histamines and Quercetin but I felt like a tuning fork that was humming all the time and abandoned all meds. So now I'm itchy and quick to have a skin reaction. Anyway, my GP ordered blood testing and my ANA came back positive at at titer level of 1:320 for DFS 70, which by itself if you read research, is a marker for non rheumatoid autoimmune disease. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I see an allergist on Thursday. I'm telling her no meds. I think they mess up the immune system. Just tell me what the triggers are. The earliest date for me to see a rheumatologist is in October. I'm taking magnesium for nerve and muscle support because clearly, I need to relax.

Be well, ANA. I wish doctors could give patients complete profiles instead of going down the path of different specialists and a battery of assessments. That does more harm than good to mental health. I'll keep you posted after I see the allergist.

I get sharp pain on my legs sometimes but most of the time my legs hurt like I m been working out all day but I haven’t my left leg feel heavy I feel like someone holding my leg when I m walking and my leg arm feel numb I been having panic attacks thinking is a stroke because my left side of my face also feel numb I get this symptoms on and off but I have them most of the time sometimes my tongue folded when I talk I don’t know if this symptoms are cause by anxiety or something is really wrong I also get tingling

Oh ok I see I was only taking regular vitamins and protein I don’t know maybe something it is wrong because I have all the symptoms for thyroid issue but that keep coming back normal now I will ask for the The PTH test because I also have symptoms of that thank you so much for commenting I also been trying hard to relax is no easy specially when I suffer from health ocd is hell

Ana,
If you think it might be a stroke I would go in and get check out at the ER to be safe.
My tongue all day has been burning and driving me crazy.
I have AFIB as well so worrying about all this don't help that heart issue.

My ANA was elevated too but Rheumatology said possible Sjogren's but hard to say. I was only slightly positive and elevated in other areas. I see Nuerology again next Tuesday (26) and see what he thinks after waiting 6 weeks.

I don’t know how stroke will feel my fear is having one that’s what my ocd is obsessed with right now I used my mouth guard july 11 since that day sometimes when I talk is weird I can talk is like I bite my tongue when I talk it sound like I m talking with the Z I look at the front of my tongue and it look red I don’t know if I been biting it or something the numbness on my face is on and off also my arm and one of my legs on and off I can still move my body I don’t know what todo a lot time I go to emergency and turn out everything was good because I panic and my ocd tell me something is wrong then I go and all good I don’t know what todo this time

Yes I see a lot things can make it positive

What strand or antibodies did they find for you? I'm sorry if I'm prying, I'm just so curious.

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Stress. Have you gone thru changes in your life recently or are you living under stress?