Question: Hi I am a Vet and the VA has run a ton of tests due to a very recent diagnosis of Dermamysotosis and it's risk of cancer. Unfortunately, they took 22 vials of blood and did not explain some of them. For example: Urine, Monoclonal Protein at 14.2 High, C Reactive High at 5.8, blood protein was low at 6 has been amended at normal 6.6. Hemacrit is low and I have been severely anemic in the past. I am deeply concerned that no one has shared with me any ideas and I am left to determine these numbers for the last two weeks for myself. They all seem to point to multiple myeloma? Sx that brought me in, a couple years of bone pain, nodules of bone or cartilage lumps under skin on my hands (specifically, the side joints on the inside fingers, the center of my palm, swollen index fingers so sore they feel they will burst) and a swollen hip that is painful to sleep on and hurts to turn in my sleep-all this on top of blotchy red rashes on the back of my neck and hands. One last question if you don't mind, I was also given an HIV 1 RNA Quantitative. The result was <40, but protocol state use for HIV 1 positive only and I (being a Veteran have been tested and always come up negative) Why would they use this test as it clearly states not to use to determine HIV status? The fact that I saw this 'only use with documented HIV 1 pos population was initially daunting, and the patient advocate won't tell me why they used it, they only apologized and said they would make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else. Thank you for your time.

Dr. Samanta,

Thank you for your feedback. The have just recently begun the CT's and MRI's. The other blood work has come in normal, but I will copy and paste here for you to see. I also had pneumonia in 09 (4 different antibiotic before cleared) and double pneumonia in 2011 (a bit more resistant, but cleared). I now get a vaccine every 5 years and take my vit D, as it was low (now normal at 50, but I take 6-8 thousand IU's daily to maintain this level. I recently read a journal article noting Vit D and some kind of exacerbation of Multiple Myeloma. Have you heard of this? One other question regarding the C reactive protein and Monoclonal development, I read another journal article that stated during treatment of Multiple Myeloma the c reactive protein actually enhances proliferation of monoclonal development (non-scientific terms as I am paraphrasing here). If that is the case, what would be the best course of Tx since both of these numbers are high according to my blood work? Again, thank you for your time and consideration. I will post all blood work later today.

I can also cite the journal articles if you like.