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First, you haven't been diagnosed with a particular autoimmune disease yet so it's hard to say whether you can spare waiting or not. The sedimentation rate result is non-specific but it may suggest inflammation or other possible conditions like sickle-cell anemia and autoimmune diseases like Kawasaki disease.
As for the chronic hives which prompted you to seek medical consult, they are thought to be caused by an immune system (autoimmune) disorder and may be linked to another health problem, such as thyroid disease or lupus.
Just in case you have autoimmune thyroid disease, leaving it untreated raises risks of contracting certain stomach cancers by more than double as well as heart problems. Joint life-threatening complications can occur when the cervical spine becomes unstable as a result of untreated rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
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