Some interesting lab data from my hospitalization

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This was after and during a week to 10 days with no food ranging to maybe a couple of hundred calories per day. Some of my results are from infection, I'd guess, some from starvation. Interesting to note that serum ketones were absent. Considering I rarely at for a least 10 days, I have to assume I was burning them all for energy.

My Hba1c rose to 6.3 for the first time since diagnosis and a drop with diet to 5.2%. This may be a result of the excess hydrocortisone I was getting in the hospital.

I was anemic, with low RBCs, hemoglobin and hematocrit on some tests, alternating with low normal range results (I was tested often). I had very high platelet count.

Normal WBCs (always no matter how bad the infection), I did have high neutrophils on the day after admission and low lymphocytes.

I had high calcium and low sodium, signs of adrenal insufficiency, and low phosphorus, occasionally low potassium.

BUN was alternately normal or low

Creatinine was low end of normal (yay, kidneys!)

Here's where it gets really interesting:

TGLs 143 (higher than typical result for me, and I wasn't eating at all on this date)

TC 131

HDL 18 (!!) I have been between 58 to 78 for over a decade)

LDL 84 I usually run high on this, with very low VLDL


So my TGLs went up and everything else plummeted, unless this was lab error.

C reactive protein, which has always been normal to low normal was 30.28 (ref range 0-.40) YOWCH.

My sed rate in the ER test was 70 (ref range 0-20) WOW.

I think the total picture is indicative of how sick I was, and how messed up the overdosage of 150mg solucortef made my endocrine and immune system.

My infusion nurse drew blood from me yesterday for blood counts and chemistry, and I just faxed my 22 pages of hospital results to my inf. diseases doc as requested.

Susan





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