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Its def rhabdomyolysis. CPK is 10,000 and there were tubular casts in my urine. So right now we are unsure whats causing it. I had a hep a, b, c test done, as well as HIV and mono and enzyme def test although I doubt its that b/c its never happened to me before. Wow this seems pretty scary. I will know more next week. Any experinces with rhabdomyolysis??? all help appreciated.
Badslinky, the tubular casts in your urine have me concerned. What was your creatinine?
Was an aldolase level sent to look for myositis?
This could all be due to overtraining, but polymyositis should definitely be ruled out. By chance you aren't taking a statin (Lipitor, Zocor, Vytorin, etc.) are you? Maybe I missed this in medical school and residency, but why is your physician checking for hepatitis A/B/C? Were your LFT's also elevated?
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Was an aldolase level sent to look for myositis?
This could all be due to overtraining, but polymyositis should definitely be ruled out. By chance you aren't taking a statin (Lipitor, Zocor, Vytorin, etc.) are you? Maybe I missed this in medical school and residency, but why is your physician checking for hepatitis A/B/C? Were your LFT's also elevated?
I will be leaving next week for an extended mission out of the country and will not be allowed to access EF. If you PM me, I can give you my email for questions.
I have not taken any statins. Other than the casts and cpk being 10,000 I dont know about the otrher test results yet. I do know that he did have me do a aldoase, PO4 test CDK, CPK, LSD and a bunch of other tests. Right now I am simply drinking atleast three quarts of water with three teaspoons of bicarbonate a day to keep my urine basic. Wont know anymore until other tests filter in over next couple of days. I doubt its over training b/c ive trained that hard or even harder in the past but who knows. Thanks for the help.
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As far as the heps, I had told him about my steroid and insulin use... he just wanted to err on the safe side and test for everything under the sun that could cause muscle wasting. I had told him that using steroids was something that I did strictly by myself with clean syringes... but you know how docs can be. Dont blame him at all he is a great doc.
I agree with the 3-5 liters of water with the bicarb daily. It's important to keep your urine output high to prevent kidney damage. He should have given you some urine dipsticks to test for heme positivity (myoglobin will cause a positive heme result in a dipstick since it cannot differentiate heme from myoglobin v. hemoglobin).
