for about a month now since my dx of having pnuemonia, I've been having this weird hiccup that'll happen for no reason at all. I'll be talking to whomever an then all of a sudden boom...it's almost...
/community/emoticons/shocked.gif no way, that's is exactly how the cramps started...in my hands. then moved to my legs and feet. my fingers cramped so bad they coiled by themselves after I pulled...
does anyone else get these to the extent of having to take a scalding hot shower and slather yourself w/ icy hot, just so you can walk again? /community/emoticons/shocked.gif I am sooooo angry,...
I'm on about between 60mg and 40mg of prednisone, any dose above 15mg makes me have the "shakes" and turns me into a hungry hungry hippo. I usually eat/drink healthy(no red meats, many fruits& veg....
i just updated my signature info =) and I've considered just doing the furosemide/klor con every other day, just so I can do my work and not be in the rest room every 5 sec. at least then I'll be...
I can not stand taking that stuff, it makes it soo hard for me to handle my day to day stuff esp. while I'm working. I have to pee for even a sip of water!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!? not only that my...
for PATTYLATTY, my rhuemy DOES have me on Vitamin D & Calcium. my signature isn't updated w/ my current meds and vitamins, b/c my docs keep changing & rearranging my stuff. So, yeah I'm doing...
Greetings fellow "Lupies" I have updates one just about everything, well NOT everything....but you know what i mean. OK, let's begin with my.... HEALTH: Apparently my lupus (SLE) has begun to attack...
Hi, everyone thanks for the information. this is such a utter disappointment to me, unfair to say the least. I know before I made a post that my job was stressing me out to the point of quitting but...
THANK YOU ROSIE I just wanted to know if anyone knows anything about this matter thru experience or knows a friend that had this happen to. I think its better for me to go, then work somewhere I'm...
today I asked to meet with my manager due to a certain vibe I was sensing thru out the dept, it was kinda hostile. So I had questions & concerns i wanted to have addressed. All of a sudden it...
Update: the Rhuemy was awesome. very informative, throrough and concerned...
thank you guys for being a beacon of information.........ya'll are AWESOME....
Bad news guys...the lupus had begun to attack my kidneys, so according the Nepherologist the best thing for me is to have a biopsy. I really, really, really, really don't want to have a hole poked in...
I'm completely and throroughly digusted w/ my job. I am not happy what so ever....b/c within a matter of a year I have been in and out of the ER. I think my job and all the unnecessary stress that...
My Protienuria had subsided and come back again...but hey I lost 10 lbs in the process!! /community/emoticons/yeah.gif I'm a little upset b/c I have to downgrade from my cute esspidrille wedge...
Hi fellow "Lupies" [img]/community/emoticons/tongue.gif I'm baaaaaaack. LOL!!! [b]Tender ankles: Late last month and at the beginning of this month I had been suffering w/ "proteiuria" ( I think...
update: swelling had gone down some what. It depends what I'm doing though if I'm on my feet too long it will come back. Since the pred. spike I've noticed my fingertips feel swollen, and my eyesfeel...
WTH!?!?!?!? I am getting soooooooooo sick of surprises!! Anywho, I started noticing that my urine was getting frothy so I googled/yahoo searched and discovered that is a tell-tale sign something is...
I think it's time for me to seek out a new dr. b/c my current one really isn't cutting it to me. He's not exactly a rhuemy dr, he's an internal med. physician. So all I'm getting are guessamates when...
( @ part in bold)Are you serious?!?!?? I was told my ANA count had everything to do w/ my Lupus flares & remissions?? WOW! I've been lied to!...
thank you all for you positive words, I really appreciate all of your insight. as far as an update, the "swollen node" is practically gone...go figure. so no biopsy needed for now. however my dr. now...
...that'sthe name of a poem I'm working on about my struggle with Lupus thus far. anyways lately I've been just that. I'm soooooooo sick of being sick right about now earlier this month I had to have...
ok maybe not quite 21 questions, but I do have questions. I apologize in advance if some of these questions are repetative, there are so many thread topics that have come up thru my searches I would...
Thanks for the replies everyone. Sorry for taking so long get back here :-] Brief update on the Pred. spike.... as of now I'm taking 5mgs as prescribed, then after that I'm down to 2 mgs meanwhile...
Hello all! I've lurked around this forum long enough, I think it's time I come out and say hi and share my story. I was officially diagnosed with SLE/ Lupus in 2004-2005. The reason I say officially...