my bone marrow biopsy came back positive I can't figure out what exactly happened to me but I had hallucinations after orgasms and most severe case of pois in the poiscenter I think it's not out of mind I have mastocytosis does anybody here could figure out mast cells staining??? cause it doesn't have number only percentage
Hi Reve,
It looks like mastocytosis is a group of different diseases, and that there are complicated criteria to try and discern between those different types. It seems that there are "B Findings"and 'C Findings", for example. I looked at this article :
https://tmsforacure.org/overview/systemic-mastocytosis-variants-including-b-c-findings/ . It shows that the % of mast cells infiltrate present in the bone marrow is a criterion used to identify mastocytosis, and which type it is.
You can see in this article that having more than 30% mast cells bone marrow infiltrates is a "B Finding".
In another article, where mastocytosis cases are presented, bone marrow biopsies showed a mast cell infiltration with a range between 15% and 70%, see at
https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/ajr.179.5.1791235 , in the "Material and Method" section.
This may help you interpret the percentage you see. I am no expert, but if these percentages you see are about the level of bone marrow infiltration by mast cells, it looks like a % higher than 15 % is positive, and from there, depending on the percentage, it is used to determine what type of mastocytosis you may have.
Do you see percentages between 15% and 70% ?
At any rates, your specialist will tell you what your results really mean.
How does it go with Gleevec? Did you stop it ? Or, if you still take it, do you still have a positive effect on your POIS ?