Saw my Endo yesterday...

[Dee Marshall]

...and I was all excited because she told me everything looked great and I could drop from semi-annual to annual appointments. She gave me the assignment to start researching GCS although I don't think I can afford it and I was floating high enough on the good news that I started when I got home.

Then the lab results came back:

Testosterone 38 ng/dl ADULT FEMALES: 10-75 ng/dl (Yay!)
17-Beta Estradiol 189 PG/ML (Yay!)
                                                     FEMALES NORMALLY MENSTRUATING
                                                     FOLLICULAR PHASE 21 TO 251 pg/ml
                                                    MID CYCLE PHASE: 38 TO 649 pg/ml
                                                    LUTEAL PHASE: 21 TO 312 pg/ml

Calcium, Bld 10.5 MG/DL 8.6-10.3 (Uh oh!)

She diagnosed me with hypercalcemia, ordered further tests and asked me to come back in 6 months. OK, reasonable.

Stupid me, I looked up hypercalcemia. Now I'm worried.

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April 22, 2015, the day of my first face to face pass in gender neutral clothes and no makeup. It may be months to the next one, but I'm good with that!

Being transgender is just a phase. It hardly ever starts before conception and always ends promptly at death.

They say the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train. I say, climb aboard!

Think outside the voice box!

[Dena]

The limits are the levels most people should see. If you are a little bit over, it could be a flawed test or possible something different about your body when the test was run. The important test will be in 6 months when you are retested to see if it's a fluke or a trend.

From my last blood test.
Eosinophils  8H 0­-7
Is it a problem, probably not as I normally run high and it could be a case of Hay fever, something which I have. The real kicker is
Alkaline Phosphatase  29L  41-151
That number has been wacky and that far off starting with my numbers from 1979 when my blood was first tested. So far, 3 doctors and a nurse practitioner have seen that number and none ever expressed any concern about a low Alkaline Phosphatase number. The limit only indicate the number should be reviewed and watched but doesn't necessarily mean there is a problem.

[Dee Marshall]

This is the second time I've been just a little high for calcium. The first time I was told to only be concerned if it repeats, which it has. It's probably nothing but my family history includes some of the conditions that could cause it. With that I'll be having follow-up tests just as soon as the script comes in the mail. It makes me a little nervous because some of the possibilities would be extremely hard for me to live with.

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April 22, 2015, the day of my first face to face pass in gender neutral clothes and no makeup. It may be months to the next one, but I'm good with that!

Being transgender is just a phase. It hardly ever starts before conception and always ends promptly at death.

They say the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train. I say, climb aboard!

Think outside the voice box!

[Dani]

Calcium, Bld 10.5 MG/DL 8.6-10.3 (Uh oh!)

She diagnosed me with hypercalcemia, ordered further tests and asked me to come back in 6 months. OK, reasonable.

Stupid me, I looked up hypercalcemia. Now I'm worried.

Wikipedia suggests the normal range is from 8.8 to 10.7 mg/dl.

Also keep in mind that you just spent a week in Florida and got a heavy dose of Florida Sunshine that will produce some extra Vitamin D, which may cause a bit of elevated calcium blood level.

Unless you have other symptoms, such as the cardiac symptoms, there is no cause for alarm. Letting you doctor check things out shows concern which is good. We should not ignore medical test results, but we need to keep them in perspective.

[Dee Marshall]

Thanks for the encouragement, Dani. I'm pretty sure they revised the numbers and Wikipedia is out of date. I was high for Calcium three years ago and I believe the range was different then. Not too worried, the phone call set me off before I saw the real results.

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April 22, 2015, the day of my first face to face pass in gender neutral clothes and no makeup. It may be months to the next one, but I'm good with that!

Being transgender is just a phase. It hardly ever starts before conception and always ends promptly at death.

They say the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train. I say, climb aboard!

Think outside the voice box!