Postive ANCA

Don't worry.

Do you have any symptoms or just some blood test results?

There is no reason to worry, as even if you have Lupus that doesn't mean you will develop more symptoms. Some people do, some people don't, and there are several med options to keep things in check. Wait and let the rheumatologist figure it out -- that is their job!

Worry = Stress = Increased Symptoms!

sorry i was asking because theres a vasculitis called churg strauss and it has to do with high esinophils/ allergies and sinusitis. theres other kinds of vasculitis too but the ANCA is a test for vasculitis. but u can also get vasculitis with lupus or any other auto immune disease.

sounds like churg strauss since u have the high eos. check with ur doctor there is treatment for it. dont worry you will make it worse. i just got tested for it last week and my eos was normal anca was neg. just my ANA sounding like scleroderma ughhh. vasculitis can cause a high ANA. just see a rheumatologist or someone specializes in it ASAP u should be able to recover from it

oh and im not a doctor so i could be wrong. but i would ask ur doctor about it and see what they think. it says some people have mild symptoms while others is more serious.

Post Edited (fnfiacco) : 11/19/2014 4:34:02 PM (GMT-7)

also check for antiphospholipid syndrome and get your blood clotting factor checked. !!! see if they did that. hopefully all will be fine. also if your not already try detoxing it gets rid of inflammation in ur body. it helped for me a whole lot. got my sed rate from 41 to 11 and now 6. stay away from carbs and wheat and supplement with vitamin D Folic acid and Omega 3 . and magnesium. just try to really cut down on sweets and sugars and carbs and take ibprofun until they tell you what they want to do to treat you. the ibprofun keeps the blood thin and reduces inflammation i think with vasculitis there is a increase in risk for blood clot. but taking ibprofun will keep it thinner and decrease inflammation.

good luckkkkkk ^_^

it really sounds like that kind of vasculitis with the high EOS and the ANCA and ur asthma. but again im not a doctor so i cant be sure. i would bring it up to your doctor though. Also i would ask them to check the antiphospholipid thing as well. But the detox is so important because the treatment for vasculitis is prednisone and immunosuppresants which are not very healthy for the body. it might put this in remission but you dont want to have to stay on those drugs especially high doses the side effects can be serious. your case sounds mild though compared to what it could be so i dont think it will be a problem for you. if you can reduce inflammation with the detox diet you can be on very low doses of those drugs to treat the vasculitis. alot of people are able to put their auto immune diseases in remission with diet alone like one person i talked to with ankylosing spondylitis and another with mixed connective tissue disease. im not sure with vasculitis but its gotta help not make it worse. i would suggest going on mark hymans website. you want to avoid things like bread, pasta, candy, sodas and really increase the vegetables and fruits and lean meat/ especially fish. if you follow it really strictly it will really help get rid of inflammation and you probably wont need any high dose of prednisone or whatever else they want to treat you with. i actually dont have this disease or a positive ANCA just ANA but i had some vascular problems with my auto immune disease and im doing soo much better with my diet. i was able to notice significant improvement and have been able to go off prednisone. i mean it isnt going to work 100 percent for everyone but it helps with any inflammatory condition and it will help you get better faster.

It is important to keep your Drs informed when you change your eating habits. With Lupus, an anti-inflammatory diet may be the EXACT WRONG THING to do, depending on what plan of treatment your Dr has in mind. It is very important to tell your Dr if you are eating specifically for a disease you think you might have.

Also make sure you don't take over the recommended amounts of any over the counter medications (like the ibuprofen mentioned above), and make sure the Drs are aware of what you are taking and how much. These things can skew the tests and interfere with getting a proper diagnosis.

Remember people posting here are not Drs, and remember that walking into a Dr's office and telling them the diagnosis is a sure-fire way to get a Dr with a closed mind. You hire them to keep an open mind and consider all the possibilities, not just the ones you've read about on the internet. I highly recommend going into the Dr with a list of SYMPTOMS, not a list of diagnoses! You'll get much better results that way, I promise.

I don't think it's as much a matter of a Dr with an ego or a bad Dr, it's more about how humans think.

Say I hand you a forest photo and tell you to look for the animals. What you'll focus on is a great deal different than if I hand you the picture and tell you to think about monkeys. In the first instance you'll probably find several different animals, whereas in the second you'll be so busy thinking "monkey" that you'll probably overlook the snake and the honey bee.

If we suggest a diagnosis it immediately has the effect of subconsciously influencing (narrowing) the physicians thought process.