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K, in an effort to stave off the dementia and blindness that my one GP keeps me reminding me of, I tend to play brain dead puter games when I boot.
However, this IgA problem came to the forefront in the midst of my worst hurtz.
Apparently, high IgA levels can be an indicator that one has a rare form of cancer.
It appeared my levels were indicative of same. Went to doc to show him infected PICC line that my home health nurses were intent on ignoring.
He hit me with the cancer probability and said it looked like I was heading that way.
Life expectancy with this cancer myloma (sp?) can't get up booting, is not long.
My 17 year old was standing right there, with her albeit loopy hurtzing mama.
They drew the bloodwork the following Monday. We were informed on a Thursday.
Noone wants to hear that they are going to die. Thats when the tygacil and efferox started.
Think they prescribed the efferox cause I might be depressed about the possibility of the cancer.
However, I would think one would be naturally depressed and I do not like messing with seritonin levels.
Talk about some permanent neuro damage then. I digress...
K, so finally we get results back. I do not have the cancer but my tissues are inflamed.
K, well I have had severe arthritic episodes. Plus a skin infection on both arms due to the PICC line cleansing solution that I told everyone I was allergic to.
This along with the wicked bad hurtz had some serious effects on my daughters. Still trying to mend those.
So has anyone else heard of this... please share, as allegedly I am still at risk of this rare cancer...
Thanking you in advance
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I had a high Iga just before being diagnosed with the lyme stuff 18 months ago. They did a whole imunegobluine panel for iga, igm, igg and ige bakc then. Then they ran the caner test on me also- came back negative. My Iga was at 600+ IGM was up a bit and ige was 160. normal iga is about in the 300 range. Ige is like 1. I had another panel done a couple of months ago. Iga is down to 530.
IGAs are the protein stuff that builds all of our mucus menbrains, intestines and that kind of stuff. If you do a search on imuneglobulins testing you can find other information.
There are a couple of thoughts on the IGA- infections that are messing with these tissues can cause them to rise. Also a couple of doctors that I have seen also have said that when these get high that there is the possabilty of parasites. High ige also can be caused by parasites. I know that I have them and have been treating these as I go along with the lyme treatment. It was good to see that in my case that the high IGA has gone down some. must be making some progress. We also know that my intestines have been hit hard by the ABX and yeast issues. This can also cause the IGA to rise.
Aa long as you ruled out the cancer issue you can look at these other areas to see what you can do to support the areas that are being hit.
I am glad you cancer test came back negative. I know how this feels to waite for the result on something like this.
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Immunoglobulin A (IgA) is a type of antibody that protects against infections of the mucous membranes lining the mouth, airways, and digestive tract.
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