Weird News
So, more news on the mono front.
Yesterday the taru went to have more bloodwork done, primarily to check his white blood cell counts. This time, he saw a different doctor, his usual one, who asked for a full update on everything from the taru. The taru explained everything that had been going on, and the doctor, curious, checked the charts.
The taru does not, in fact, have reactivated mono. No, instead, he has such a high immunity level to mono that he's likely never to have it again or ever be contagious again. Most people who have had mono chart in at 100-200 counts in terms of their antibody counts. The taru registered at over 1000 in terms of his antibody counts. Somehow, whomever read the test results the first time, misread that antibody count as actively having mono (that is, they read it as the wrong antibody).
So what does this mean for me? It means that most likely my test results were misread in the same way, and I have a much lower, but still present, immunity to mono. Meaning I most likely caught it as a child or never have symptoms. Which makes sense, given as the only symptom I have close to mono is the sore throat.
WTF.
Yesterday the taru went to have more bloodwork done, primarily to check his white blood cell counts. This time, he saw a different doctor, his usual one, who asked for a full update on everything from the taru. The taru explained everything that had been going on, and the doctor, curious, checked the charts.
The taru does not, in fact, have reactivated mono. No, instead, he has such a high immunity level to mono that he's likely never to have it again or ever be contagious again. Most people who have had mono chart in at 100-200 counts in terms of their antibody counts. The taru registered at over 1000 in terms of his antibody counts. Somehow, whomever read the test results the first time, misread that antibody count as actively having mono (that is, they read it as the wrong antibody).
So what does this mean for me? It means that most likely my test results were misread in the same way, and I have a much lower, but still present, immunity to mono. Meaning I most likely caught it as a child or never have symptoms. Which makes sense, given as the only symptom I have close to mono is the sore throat.
WTF.

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