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Posted 9/28/2012 4:43 PM (GMT 0)
I got ahold of my latest lab results and was told over the phone my Albumin was out of range. I'm a constant worrier and going to see a doc tonight about some chest pain, probably due to allergies but this is the first time I've ever been told something was wrong with my metabolic table/CBC. Is out of tangle Albumin something to worry about? I know it is an indicator of Chrons if low but idk t n ow of its high or low. I'm suffering from muscle aches, headaches and joint pain and worried something might be off.
Posted 9/28/2012 6:45 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Will,

Call your doctor's office, make an inquiry about that result. The doctor should go over this with you if it's a problem. Some labs can be higher or lower, without it being a problem but again, that's best discussed with the doctor.
Since you say you worry a lot (which happens and nothing wrong with that), have you been diagnosed with anxiety? Anxiety, stress, panic attacks can cause palpitations, chest pain and rapid heart beat. All accompany anxiety, you feel like you're having a heart attack, dying, a cloud of doom over you. Do you feel that way at times?
Posted 9/28/2012 6:49 PM (GMT 0)
I'm already being treated with klonopin. I'm going to urgent care tonight to get checked for a respiratory/sinus infection. I'll ask the doc there if I should e worried about bad albumin. I know it's tied to lymphoma but I'd expect more than albumin being off if something were wrong. I'm leaning toward Malobsorbtion. Both my docs are out for a week and nobody else will look at the results due to legal reasons. I put an inquiry in at my primary physician to see if he flagged them before he left but haven't heard from his nurse. I'm sure it's nothing but I'm stuck at work without my feel good pills so I'm getting panicky over nothing.
Posted 9/28/2012 7:13 PM (GMT 0)
Ah OK Will, sorry you're without your pills. I had a bout with anxiety some years ago, rushed to an ER as my heart started to race out of nowhere. Wound up the attending physicians at the ER had a good chuckle out of my situation. I'm like sure, it's funny for you, you're not feeling this way, lol. They were right though, I needed to get more rest, a little less caffeine and it eventually went away. Going forward when I'd have a panic attack, I would remember they (the physicians) could tell me the symptoms before I could tell them. Then knew it was all in my mind and would feel better and calmed down.

I suffer from sinus infections a few times a year, usually 2 to 3 and they're pretty bad. I use a Neti-pot to flush my sinuses out, keep my head tilted up when sleeping, use decongestants and use a humidifier. I'll often sit in front of the humidifier for 10 minutes to breath in the steam through my nose. Also take very hot showers, breath in steam through my nose to break up the mucus.
Some people have mixed feelings about the Neti-pot, I do whatever helps relieve the pressure and get rid of the pains in my face.

Good luck tonight at the urgent care and let us know how things go.
Posted 9/28/2012 7:27 PM (GMT 0)
When they say out of range, do they mean off all known charts or outside of the 'normal' range? The first would be a novelty to me and the second... it happens with Crohn's, albumin often ends up being low due to losing too much protein in the bowel.

In the meantime, just relax.... >.>
Posted 9/28/2012 7:54 PM (GMT 0)
I'm assuming off on their range. All U.S. labs have different standards for normal. I just thought it was odd they left a message specifically for that though its probably because they couldn't get ahold of my doc and were fishing for me to call back.
Posted 10/1/2012 12:25 AM (GMT 0)
Well as a note back. When I went to get my lungs and chest checked to make sure I didn't have anything physically wrong before I saw the allergy doc and the doctor seemed to blow off all my symptoms and blame them on Chron's. I asked for a chest xray and he obliged. It was clear as expected. No nodules. My blood pressure was off the charts however. I was hitting 170/40. This prompted him to do an EKG to see how my heart was doing. It came back odd, with some strange signatures so by protocol I had to be sent to the ER to verify the results and get an cardie-enzyme test. Both came back negative for nothing being wrong but my chest pain still persists on the left side. The E.R. Doc requested my CBC/Met once he saw Chron;s on my chart, saw the albumin and wrote it off. He, and the clinic doc, are thinking I am either coming into a flare...which would be my first in just under a decade, or I am showing symptoms of Fibromyalgia. Does Fibro cause chest pain? It isn't bad...just irritating. I know a chest xray isn't 100% sure but if there was something underlying It would have shown I am pretty sure since they took four shots. All clear. How common is Fibro with Chron's and what can be done about it? I am getting pain in all sorts of places in my body this last month and it's getting concerning.
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