A few weeks ago, I had a very high CRP reading of 71 which is not meant to be above 10 and a CA125 (ovarian cancer marker) at 105 which was not meant to be over 35. When I initially had these bloods taken, I had them done in the morning and they were back the same day and I looked on my NHS App and they were logged the same day at 5:30 in the evening. The next day at 8 am as soon as the surgery opens, the receptionist rings me and tells me to come in.
When of these results, I was absolutely terrified and went the next day to have a private ultrasound on my ovaries.
Everything looked fairly normal. The only thing they noted was a 1.5 cm functional cyst that looked very normal the type that come every month and then disperse themselves. All my abdomen looked normal to nothing to report on.
I was talking to the sonographer and she said the CA125 is not a reliable test because any benign pelvic condition can raise it even ovulating can raise it your period can raise it ... she was more concerned about my CRP and said that will need investigating… She asked me if I had been ill? To which I suddenly remembered the day before they took my blood I had my flu jab. I told the sonographer and she laughed like she had a lightbulb moment and said yes that would raise it. I've done some googling and 71 is quite high and I'm not sure if flu jab would raise it that much but then I am a massive Overthinker.
However I went back to the doctors and had these two retested yesterday. I was a bit cheeky as the nurse told me to ring later in the day because they usually back the same day. I didn't ring back yesterday but I did ring this morning to which they told me , they were back last night. I've been waiting all day and I've rang twice and the doctor hasn't even looked at them yet.
I told the receptionist I have anxiety and I have been able to sleep. All she could tell me was my CRP was lower she wouldn't tell me how much lower or if it was in range, and didn't even mention the other one.
What I'm struggling to understand about how doctors office works , is does the doctor even know that they're back with the lab flag up results that need to be looked at as priority? Because the last time they rang me as soon as the doctors office opened... and when I looked on my NHS App, they had actually processed and looked at the results the day before when they were received back from the lab. Do the lab abnormal results for the doctors to look at as priority is that how it works?