Hi ladies,
I hope you don't mind my posting my question here as it involves my niece and not myself.
Right now my sister is with her daughter at a children's hospital in Grand Rapids, MI. Back on Thursday my sister took her daughter to a local doctor because she wasn't acting herself and was saying she was tired all the time. The doc did some blood work and was concerned with what he saw, saying that her kidneys weren't functioning properly. He wanted her to see a specialist and sent them to GR (four hour drive).
Once there more tests were done and her kidneys were found to be functioing at only 20%. A biopsy was scheduled and done and now the update is that the biopsy, in the words of the doc relayed by my sis, "...screams Lupus", but he also said my neice's DNA doesn't match the DNA of a person with Lupus. ??
They've put my niece on meds for the Lupus, but it doesn't sound to me like they've really made a diagnosis. It sounds like the two tests are conflicting each other and the doc took a boatload of new blood for more tests, so it seems to me he's not sure himself.
Any thoughts on this? Any words I can share with my worried sister? I know of two woman with Lupus; one it affects her skin and she has scars all over her face and the other complains of pain in her bones and loses patches of hair.
Thank you so much.
I hope you don't mind my posting my question here as it involves my niece and not myself.
Right now my sister is with her daughter at a children's hospital in Grand Rapids, MI. Back on Thursday my sister took her daughter to a local doctor because she wasn't acting herself and was saying she was tired all the time. The doc did some blood work and was concerned with what he saw, saying that her kidneys weren't functioning properly. He wanted her to see a specialist and sent them to GR (four hour drive).
Once there more tests were done and her kidneys were found to be functioing at only 20%. A biopsy was scheduled and done and now the update is that the biopsy, in the words of the doc relayed by my sis, "...screams Lupus", but he also said my neice's DNA doesn't match the DNA of a person with Lupus. ??
They've put my niece on meds for the Lupus, but it doesn't sound to me like they've really made a diagnosis. It sounds like the two tests are conflicting each other and the doc took a boatload of new blood for more tests, so it seems to me he's not sure himself.
Any thoughts on this? Any words I can share with my worried sister? I know of two woman with Lupus; one it affects her skin and she has scars all over her face and the other complains of pain in her bones and loses patches of hair.
Thank you so much.