Yep. They give you a local and if they had gotten in straight away then I think it wouldn't be too bad. Problem is, they dug around my back for 30-40 minutes and naturally would have hit certain...
Hi Joie, Sorry to hear about your boss. I started working full time even though I was already unwell, but because it was my first job, I didn't know better. I assumed it would be different to study...
Hi Julie, Fairly new to the lupus thing (diagnosed Aug last year though had symptoms for 9 years!) so probably don't have as many handy tips as some of the "veterans" here do. What I can say though...
Hi all, Had and LP last Wednesday and have been plagued with what looks like a post-puncture headache. Head wasn't too bad initially, pain relief calmed it (if anything my back was sorer probably due...
Thanks for that, Lucy. Even after 9+ years of all of this, pacing is something I really struggle with. I think because for so long they could never find anything that was "wrong" I got into the...
Pain pre-dates my return to work. Obviously things have worsened somewhat this week for the very reasons you've cited....
No. The pain hasn't just recently started. It dates back to September last year when I would have been on in for less than a month. Surely it can't be that soon... From what I gather it's usually...
I've lost weight but not sure what to attribute it to. I think initially it was all the ulcers so I didn't eat so I thought prednisone would do my weight some good (I don't have very much on me so...
Yep, I'm under the care of a rheumy. The thing is, this increased pain I seem to have acquired has a completely different "property" to what I had previously, even when the official thing was just...
Hi all, I've been or prednisone for about 4.5 months, since the start of my diagnosis. I was initially put on a taper regimen but by the time I got to 5mg I struggled to function with all the pain...
I have been getting quite a few over the years - had one under the tongue a couple of times. About halfway through last year it got much worse - like 7 ulcers at one go followed by 5 the next round...
I guess the reason I say prednisone wasn't doing much for me was because I'm don't feel markedly better but for some bizarre reason, feel more pain than I did before anyone intervened, so it's almost...
Hi, Diagnosed with SLE about a month ago and been on prednisone since. It hasn't done a lot of good for me (in fact I'm worse off with it but can't stop taking it or taking less of it because pain...
Hi, I was diagnosed with SLE just under 2 weeks ago, after years of "I think you have it but we can't be sure".The rheumatologist put me on prednisone, 20mg for 3day, 15mg for 3 etc until zero. I...