Time to manage

My birthday...
Chinese New Year...
Baptism cum 1 year birthday party of our lovely niece.

We have to juggle on the events while we face our journey.

When there are events, there will always be "the question" - "Are we expecting anything yet?" then what else can you say but "it's still on the process".

In between the busy events for the month.  We managed to see another Immunologist.  Dra. Abong.  She is so nice and actually very accommodating.  She saw all my immune tests at MEL.  And as for her opinion my NK Cells are A-OK! Quite contradictory to Dr. O's interpretation.

She then requested to have a re-tests of my ANA (Anti Nuclear Antibody) - of which my blood were drawn at MEL and sent at SLGC (she said that St. Luke's uses a different method - Immunofluorescence, and it is a better method than ELISA), KCT or SCT screening - this one's in MEL .  Other tests are for the thyroid panel. We spent P7500 for all the tests and the results are emailed to me in 2-3 days.

And here they are:

ANA (IF)

SCT SCREENING

THYROID PANEL

Yippeee!!!! I'm so cleared from all the tests.  Even my KCT's normal.  God is really good!  We went back to Dr. A and she told us that there is no other problem except for my LAT.  We'll be having LIT to treat it.   She orders for a blood screening for my husband (he'll be my donor for the first 3 sessions.  Then a retest for my LAT if it improves then my husband will still be my donor for the 4 session.  If not we'll find a donor.

This is it for now....

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Immunological Testing Results

Here are the results of my immunological testing which was done at MEL last week.  Results were sent through email.  From the looks of it, I'm okay with Anti sperm antibodies and ANA.  I fail LAT and I'm not so sure about my NK test result.

ANTI NUCLEAR ANTIBODY 

ANTISPERM ANTIBODY

LEUKOCYTE ANTIBODY TEST

NK TEST RESULT

We'll see Dr. Ortigas this coming Thursday.  Here's his schedule SLGC - RAI Center - 2nd floor, Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-5pm, Saturdays 11am-2pm.

This is it for now.  Will post updates after our consultation with the immunologist.

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Immunological Testing

It's official.  Our R&R has now officially ended.  We are pushing through with our game plan.  Complete the immunological testing and then if everything is all well we're going to see a new doctor.  And if not we are seeing Dr. Alejandro Ortigas - a repro immuno doctor from SLGC. Heard a lot of good reviews about him so we'll see.









We started early today.  Had my immunological testing done at The Manila Endocrine Laboratory.

10 cc of blood for all 4 tests

And did the following test today:

1. LAT - Leukocyte Antibody Test
2. ANA - Antinuclear Antibody Test
3. Anti-sperm Antibodies
4. Elevated Natural Killer Cell

and yes he's also doing his part.
His blood is also needed for the anti-sperm antibodies.

No preparation is needed just go there and tell Ate Au what are the tests that you need (I've got no request since I'm doing this voluntarily but if you have one then you may show it).  Results will be emailed a day after you came in for the tests (except for NK which usually takes 3 days - and has a cut off day of Thursday)

Our bloody morning.

MEL does not accept card payments.  So better call first for the cost of the test that you need.  We spent a total of Php 18300.00 for all 4 test.  

breakdown of total cost.

This is it for now.  

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