It's a sign of specific tissue damage, mostly muscle.
Hi Dan062, and all,
Dan, I am curious on how you are doing now?
and what if any more info you/ your doctor's found?
I hope you are okay
My two cents related to that which you asked in your original post
( please pardon my brain fog )
Quick two cents summary:
The three labs/ results you listed in original post to me seem inconclusive.
Needing more follow up.
I am concerned doctors are trying to make a diagnosis on just these.
1. ESR is an outdated unreliable lab.
Did I read recently that ESR are old school.?
Isn't there a new and better inflammation marker now used by physicians other than ESR?
2.
You mention elevated CK.
Elevated Means minimal alone or in addition to Just two other labs.
Unless I read this wrong ( if so please disregard) , I assume your doctor checked your muscle CK s?
Alone it means nothing.
It could mean a bruise. Or you coughed too hard recently, recently had dental cleaning, stubbed your toe, had a physically active day.
There are 3 CK s:
muscle,
cardiac
and ______ CK s if I remember correctly.
And I think there are some meds, including cholesterol lowering meds That can effect the mm( muscle)CK lab result to read falsely high.
TOGETHER with other testing, symptom history, activity history , medication list, etc
an elevated specific CK , like mm( muscle) ck, could point out a person has a muscle wasting issue or other diagnosis etcetcetc.
alone it means diddly.
3. Now I forget your other lab.
Sorry.
4. I think you asked about your labs and if it meant you could or could not have m.e/ cfs and if they could be false positive?
Regarding false positive, false negative labs and m.e. / cfs:
There is literature and research ,but especially the trends I noticed as a long term m.e./ cfs person
that antibodies/ auto antibodies in us cause unreliable lab results.
One must look at trends( 4-5) of same blood lab results at same laboratory for us.
We have false positives, false negatives.
Even Inexplicably high then low for no reason of the same lab at times for me.
One must look at your whole picture not just a few lab " numbers" .
Not just once or twice without taking into account you and whole body,
symptom trend,
history, compare many many immune system labs as well as the usual labs,
trends over months, years s a whole.
Eastern medicine, NDs, homeopathss are better at this but don't usually take insurance
With western medicine, their
" within normal limits "range
is so wide that it includes dead people on a cold slab.
Trends of YOUR labs specific numbers regardless of the " normal range" are what is most important to help put the whole picture together to help you.
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please research any above mentioned items for accuracy if interested. Please Don't rely on my cfs / m.e. fog brain
