Hello,
You are suffering from severe inflammation, stomach aches, loose bowels,
severe headache and pain in your knees and ankles. The duration of each complaint is not mentioned. You were referred to a
Rheumatologist and infectious disease Dr. You say that you have problems with inflammation in your whole life. What do you mean by that word inflammation.
From this history and by the investigations, I presume that you have been suspected for an
autoimmune disease.
Normally when there is an infection (foreign protein) our immune system in the body produces plenty of
proteins called as
antibodies (collection of
WBC) to fight against the infection. Infectious diseases are diagnosed by the estimation of the specific antibodies.
Sometime the antibodies by mistake identify the normal protein within the cell nuclei as foreign proteins and fight against them. These antibodies are called as Antinuclear antibodies (ANA). A positive ANA test means auto antibodies are present, but is not an Auto immune disease and treatment is not needed. Even for some normal individual these ANA may be present. You were referred to Rheumatologist and infectious disease Dr for this suspisian of auto immune disease.
Eliminating autoimmune disease as a diagnosis for you, I think treatment of all your complaints will be much easier. Till then don't get tensed up.
I hope you understand that
Best wishes for you