Just amazing.

So keeping in view congenital syphilis isnt it better to order treponemal antibody tests in screening for infectious diseases in a pregnant woman than an RPR

I hv Graves disease, hyperthyroidism, Metholmazole daily for 6 years now. Now a small nodule on left thyroid gland watching, ultrasound every year, growed just a little bit last ultrasound. 5 years ago a small tumor on left adrenal gland now. Watching that too now, checking Tsh, t3-t4 levels every 6 months. Last 2 months my top b/p number is getting up to 178/ 102. Very high for me. Weight 110- to now 127. I hv a hard time keeping Weight on, for years but now weight gain too much, both b/p & weight unusual. Reported to my primary care dr. Wants to recheck me after Thanksgiving. I feel sickly, weight gain, high blood pressure all of a sudden. I think maybe request a cortisol blood level from my Endocrinologist after Thanksgiving too. Something is nit right with me right now. Frequent urination also, strange for me. I hope to get some questions answered soon. 🙃

Excited to hear the story of a patient who came for lung transplantation and suspected to have Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome because of the awareness created by Dr Dong Chen about Inherited bleeding disorders. Thank you both Dr Bobby Prit and Dr Dong Chen for sharing your knowledge.

Doctors should also listen to their patients

Valuable perspective, worth consideration.

I got mine from steroids back in April 2024. Been to 3 doctors including the doctor who ruined me and all 3 deny that the steroids did this to me. I had steroids injected into my arm for a nerve injury from my warehouse job. I had side effects and symptoms of neuropathy 4 days after my 2 steroid shots in my arm. I’m mad and upset. My 3rd doctor who was a neurologist diagnosed me with small fiber neuropathy. I’m taking supplements now as of a few days ago. Alpha lipoic acid with b12 in it. I’m hoping I get better one day even if it takes me months I’m willing to wait. Wish I would have denied their steroid shots that day in his office. He’s a horrible doctor. He even thought my symptoms were coming from my back. He was wrong. And even wanted to give me 2 injections in my back what a quack, when physical therapy didn’t help at all. 2nd nerve doctor in Princeton looked at my MRI that was prescribed from that idiot doctor and he said my back had very slight disk bulges. He did a EMG on my feet, legs and back and saw abnormal nerve findings in my nerves in my feet. So he sent me to the neurologist where I did extensive blood work which showed nothing . Blood work was all fine. $3,000 worth of blood work. She even had another scan done on my back on my spine and it looked totally normal. So now I am stuck with neuropathy which is uncomfortable. My nerve doctor who gave me this steroid is just an awful doctor. Doesn’t he know or care that steroids can cause neuropathy. I stand for a few minutes and my right foot hurts. Both my legs and feet are numb. Thank you to whoever reads all of this.

I find that I am more often sensitive to heat than cold. When I get out of a shower I may get so desperately cold as I'm drying myself that I feel as though I'm naked and wet outside in a cold winter. My skin actually "burns" and hurts, extreme goose bumps and my teeth chatter. I instantly curl up in a ball as I'm desperately trying to warm up, searching for heavy tools and blankets. More often I will awaken with itching, burning, sweating, radiating hot condition. Body feels like I've been deeply kicked all over my body. I have to carefully scratch my skin everywhere to help reduce the burning, agitated itch in my skin. A warm shower helps quite a bit to calm skin. Movement helps the painful body (big arm circles, twisting at my waist, stretching in doorway). Deep massage with a body massage tool helps a bit. Being still makes it all worse as I "gel" when I'm still. I get heavy axillary sweating during this time that is very strong and unpleasant. I have jaw clenching and deep ache in my jaws with severe bruxism that has cracked most molars, even with nightguard, needing many crowns. Burning lips and mouth. Burning outer ears with any pressure to them. 60% high frequenting hearing loss with no known source of it. Other hypersensitivities of light, hearing loss with hypersensitive hearing to certain sounds (?) makes no sense to me. Extreme hypersensitivity to textures and pressure of clothing. Cannot tolerate any jewelry on skin. Cannot tolerate my hair touching my skin, or one area of skin touching other areas of skin, especially when lying down. Feet often cramp so bad it still hurts after cramp has gone. I have pudendal nerve deep burning when I sit or lie down, necessitating sleeping with ice packs between upper legs and buttocks as anogenital area deeply burns. Low back/buttock burns when I'm on feet for over about 2 hours. Usual neuropathic burning/cramping of feet and calves. Elastic stockings can help prlong standing a bit. Have been diagnosed with ulnar nerve neuropathy, must bend elbows carefully and for short times. Also occipital neuralgia with chronic migraines. Neck/shoulders/upper back burning pain. Dry eyes and dry mouth, worse on waking. GI sensitivities to carbs and sweets causing extremely cramping diarrhea with sweating, nausea/vomiting. Extreme urinary frequency with occasional dribbling without sensation. Racing pounding heart was severe at one point for several years, was diagnosed with "paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia" but this has greatly reduced recently and I'm so happy to have any improvement at all. Have had most of these symptoms since 1989 during a prolonged very stressful time in life, worsened in 2020 following my only Covid infection (not vaxxed). Very soon after that I told my doctor I wanted to stop the benzodiazepine I had been taking for nearly 29 years, as directed, unaware this isn't a safe long term drug. My doctor told me to "just STOP" and I did, never took another since with horrible, cold turkey symptoms for many months. That was 45 months ago and acute phase has passed. I'm left with extreme anhedonia and personality changes, not "cheery" anymore, I'm told. I'm aware of this, just can't change it back. My neurologist does not think or consider this cold turkey withdrawal as a possible cause of sudden worsening of symptoms, and diagnosed me as "idiopathic small fiber peripheral polyneuropathy" with occipital neuralgia. He recommended high dose gabapentin...no other treatment offered. I won't take over 300-600 mg in a day, dont trust Rx drugs any more since the benzo issue. He does not need or want to see me for followup. Any suggestions? Will SoftWave ESWT help?

Your dermatologist will refer you to a Psychiatrist. Your Psychiatrist will tell you to get a workup from your Primary. Your primary will order a test that looks for antibodies of “lyme bacteria” aka burgdorferi. It will come back negative. Theyll tell you you dont have lyme. Then they will prescribe you antibiotics anyway and maybe some prozac. Refer you back to Psych. The CDC will talk about delusions. Primary DP can only be diagnosed if there is no other medical conditions. If there are other mental health observations a diagnosis of secondary DP will be made and will be treated as such. Many people with MD have no other health symptoms. Most test negative for Lyme. Why would the CDC test people in NW California because that is where most of the complaints come from for Burgdorferi? If it’s regional, how can it be DP? Why are dermatologists referring peoole to Psych when a full workup needs to be done? Why would you test for burgdorferi, when it’s clearly not LYME as we know it? Why does the cdc say the “hairs” are cotton if there is nothing there? How does DP resolve with the removal of the nodule? What about unexplained tooth decay? Many have reported tooth loss with MD. I myself have discoloration (bilateral) at the gum line that is black. My dentist says it not staining or decay. They couldnt tell me WHAT it was.. Please continue to bring these new bacterium to light. People are literally fighting eachother over the existance of these conditions. Wiki says one thing, CDC says another, NIH says another, and then contradicts itself. Even AI cant get it straight. Pimples dont have hairs. Hair follicles arent microscopic..Microscopic hairs are bacterial and just because they dont test for the correct bacteria doesnt mean people are delusional. Morgellons is REAL!

This is fascinating especially the potassium channel case. Is there a similar finding for sodium channel immune disorders?

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11:27- pcr test

I had it and almost died with it when I was 19.It took them forever to find out what was wrong with me...

This question is not related to your topic. Because I have asked to many Doctors that have answered me, “I don’t know”. I am asking you here: How would bites from the fly named back soldier fly be treated? Why Doctors don’t have any knowledge of the difference between lymphoma and limpedema? Thank you for your answers.

Analyzing your channel videos, there are some problems. Due to which you are not getting a good view.

The audio should have been cleaned up prior to upload.

Very informative video

After modern medical science finds a vaccine for AIDS and a vaccine for Long COVID in the vaccinated they will have time to square the circle. The Universal Vaccine has always been "First, do no harm." God, Beautiful Mother Nature and healthy immune systems save billions of lives every single day. PS Freedom of Speach is also a nice feature for the KZbin comments section. Thank you.

Can we see list of diseases that wgs and wes can be useful ?

AMAZING!!!! thank you, this has summarized it so well for me

I pray we can get really really better treatments! This is such a horrible disease! 😢 The treatments shouldn't be so expensive and the treatments should be open not only for the most aggressive scleroderma but for everybody with scleroderma. Please create a direct medication or something that can stop the skin tightening. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💗🕯️

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Focus on your Laboratory STAFF too not just your “Processes”. Give them competitive pay, compensations & benefits they deserve.

I had stage 3 lung cancer, which was deemed inoperable due placement of one of the lymph nodes. After chemo treatments I was able to have surgery and the surgeon removed my lower left lung. After surgery pathology came back that I am cancer free. I'm having immunotherapy treatments and ct scans and a shadow was found on my left adrenal gland. My oncologist wants to have a biopsy done, thanks to your video, I'm going to veto that procedure. I'd also like that I have a KRAS g12v mutation

I'm 68yrs old and I found out I have anti phospholipids coagulant antibodies 2023

How long winded!

Great work! This series taught me a lot, but I also really appreciated those guiding principles at the end. Personally humility is vital in the clinical lab.

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I thought I had a yeast infection at first. I got checked months later and found out I had gonorrhea. Then I still had symptoms after treatment and had further tests and found out I had trich. Get tested y’all!!!

Fascinating!

I know it's 6 yrs later but I hope to reach you. Would you consider Southern Australia to have a similar environment related to to sustainability for this fungi AND! have you heard of any cases of infection in Australia specifically. Also if you could help me..,.I have important questions. Please and thankyou! Regards.

My husband and I got diagnosed with this but we've been together for 7 years and have been our only sexual partners with each other. We work together and tell each other everything. Is it possible to get this parasite in other ways than sex? I've asked my personal OBGYN and primary care doctor about this situation and they just keep suggesting one of us cheated on each other but none of us have we've been very faithful to each other and have three children together. I'm so confused 😕.

Does this mean it would be "illegal", i.e. a criminal offense for John Doe to possess PCR Grade Water or any other substance designated "RUO"?

The ruling reads as though labs are now allowed to not ask for consent before givin them experimental treatments. Can you elaborate on that claim?

Did you pull the "taking antibiotics reduces bile acid re-absorption" point out of your behind??? No where in the presentation mentions this.

This profoundly saddens me. I was thinking of starting a company to use DNA sequencing to diagnose rare conditions. However this completely breaks the business model.

very helpful video!

What exactly is the test for Charcot Marie Tooth disease? More information on this please.

I recently got HS CRP and LP PLA2 results from labs my endocrinologist ordered. But he didn't explain the two tests and the value of each. So I'm happy that Dr. Donato explained each and the fact that the LP PLA2 test is more specific to cardio issues. I'm pleased that the first of the two was <.30 and the second was 99.

Very Informative Bill, thanks for keeping us informed.

Unfortunately the audio is very choppy and it can be hard to understand what he's saying because it cuts off his sentences.

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Is it possible to be screened at Mayo Clinic in Neurology Dept? I am suffering from post surgical inflammatory neuropathy from compression shrech for over 6 yrs now after total knee reconstruction surgery. No one knows what to do, and there is 2 surgeons who want $60,000 and do not take insurance 😅 I have not had any relief its debilatating

Also, would a normal nfl rule our something neuromuscular like als?

What is a better, serum of plasma for nfl diagnosic tool?

This is what killed my mother. She was on Remicaid at the time and you're really not supposed to take Remicaid if you have ever lived in the Mississippi River Valley which we did for 20 years. I think the doctor missed her risk factor as she had moved by that time and wasn't living in that area anymore. This wasn't common at all in the area she moved to.

Will the test work if the sample arrives after 24hrs?

Congratulations to all the Lab Medicine Rounds podcast team! excellent content every time !

Could you explain why discharge usually yellow or green color? Is that chemical reaction or some pigment or bile like secretion on the discharge. Thanks

I believe the order is a timely one, as we are moving too fast with AI development. Some programs are not even stable yet, and lives are lost unfortunately in some incidents outside the US.