Posted 3/4/2016 11:40 AM (GMT 0)
Is your mouth dry as well? I'm just not sure the lip biopsy is accurate otherwise. Unfortunately not that much is known about Sjogren's and we really don't have any active members that have severe symptoms (like chest pain).
I would suggest you approach your rheumy more like, "I have this severe chest pain", how do we treat it? (I have Lupus, Fibro, Sjogren's, and get more results this way than if I try to guess which disease is causing the issue at hand.)
After our symptoms are diagnosed enough to narrow down on a diagnosis, and we're on the general meds, often symptoms are treated on a more case-by-case basis. My guess is that they would want to try Prednisone, Imuran, Cellcept, and/or MTX next.