htese44
11-30-2023, 09:13 PM
Hi everyone. I’m a 29 year old female and actually am not quite a new member, I posted years ago about symptoms such as nasal crusting , mild subglottic stenosis and “asthma” but negative labs.
I’ve had these symptoms for 15 years now, but ever since the start of the pandemic I got Covid and started to get some recurrent lung infections. I’ve had X-ray’s and CT scans and nothing has come back particularly concerning except that I keep getting pneumonia in the same part of my lung. I was in the ER this weekend for pneumonia and luckily , all other organs are fine- it just seems to be respiratory related. I’m going in for a bronchoscopy tomorrow. And Today I received an alert and saw that my MPO (p-anca) was 1.1 (it says normal is .9). I haven’t talked to a doctor yet but I think this is, I guess you could say, “finally” going to be what gives me the diagnosis.
I know I should be happy in some ways as I always sort of knew and maybe I can get better, but I am feeling really hopeless and scared. I just wanted to join this community and maybe get some hope for the future here.
I’ve had these symptoms for 15 years now, but ever since the start of the pandemic I got Covid and started to get some recurrent lung infections. I’ve had X-ray’s and CT scans and nothing has come back particularly concerning except that I keep getting pneumonia in the same part of my lung. I was in the ER this weekend for pneumonia and luckily , all other organs are fine- it just seems to be respiratory related. I’m going in for a bronchoscopy tomorrow. And Today I received an alert and saw that my MPO (p-anca) was 1.1 (it says normal is .9). I haven’t talked to a doctor yet but I think this is, I guess you could say, “finally” going to be what gives me the diagnosis.
I know I should be happy in some ways as I always sort of knew and maybe I can get better, but I am feeling really hopeless and scared. I just wanted to join this community and maybe get some hope for the future here.