cea is 1.4 - very low.

along with the negative fit test, chances of cancer - including chances of bone cancer - just plummeted to almost zero. but, i'll be talking to a gastroenterologist in the next few days and an endocrinologist in august. my doctor is going to strangle me because i keep proving him wrong and he is getting pissed off about it, but, i mean...

ok.

that was the scary thing.

but i still don't know what the fuck the problem actually is...

i'm actually probably going to ask the doctor to take all of these results and sit down with a bunch of other doctors. we've tested for almost everything and found nothing, except lowish gastrin and highish salicylates - both of which are vanishingly obscure.

markers for crohn's and colitis are still coming, but cea should actually be elevated for both of those, too. so, if there's anything in there, it's pretty small...

my pth was normal, so the bone issue isn't due to hyperparathyroidism. and, the other markers are still coming.