thanks for posting this! now i know why vicodin only helps for about 45 minutes....
thanks ya'll! i am going to try to update my flickr acct up to date (and i will get it organized) i'm a little overwhelmed going from photograph hobbist to photography pro. i'm not sure what is up...
hey everyone. well, there is some good news. i got the job! full time photojournalist. yep. my fellowship was really interesting, but maddening. i am going to resign monday morning, and i hope take...
i am sorry to hear you are having back pain.. i started having horrible back pain in february that is just now starting to get better. vicodin and the heating pag, along with begging for gentle...
i often run fevers in the 99.5 range. i know it is low, but i think it makes me wear out easier than others. i take it when i notice something being weird. new skin rash - take it. pain - take it. it...
this also can mean that you are not absorbing fat, and that it is passing right on through....
when i am flaring, yes, it will hurt sometimes to be touched. even my cloths have caused horrible pain before, but more typically, it hurts to be touched or hugged even gently. it me it feels like...
finally i have a name for why i am almost always purple, pink or blue. it's livedo reticularis -- anyone else more blue and pink than they are anything else? is part of the lupus puzzle? it seems...
when i was a little girl, i had strep in my blood stream AND impentigo (sp?) and the underside of my skin itched, which made me insane ...i just remember crying and laying on the carpet and wiggling...
thanks, ginny! i hadn't thought they were anything but hives...but i shouldn't just go on what the dermatologist says. she's really been off on a few things (called the vasculitis in my finger tips,...
thanks! i will file this under the "this looks just like lupus, please help me" list. i will call the dermatologist on monday and see what she says.. i might also call my GI. he has been a major...
i was getting ready for bed a few hours ago, and looked to see if the hives on my leg had left any redness -- i tried really hard to leave them along, and thankfully, i didn't break the skin. but i...
after a three week bout of hives that ended about five weeks ago, they are trying to come back. two days ago they were on my leg, but went away. tonight they are coming up on matching places on my...
interesting. i have been drinking a LOT of water recently. maybe i am detoxing? i run low grade fevers on / off all the time, so hard ti say about the infection, but who knows -- i would make sense....
wait it out. i didn't sleep for 80 hrs and had break downs of looking at wedding invitations those first few days!!! it will get better, just hope you can get off the higher doses quickly. i know...
for many weeks now, i thought my skin was breaking out with zits. i get a stray one here or there on my face, but nothing major.... but these spots are tiny pinkish/fleshy in color, raised and pretty...
bananas...! that is strange. i'm glad you were ont he predinose and it kept things from getting even worse. hope all the allergy symptoms go away quickly!...
i have been using splenda, and recently read articles about how toxic it is, and how the molecule used to replace what is taken away as it is 'derived from sugar' is the same chlor-something...
same here. earring allergies get the best of me too...even after i take them out they still are red and itch for days afterwards. i can only wear gold and be okay. and just a side note -- this was...
my rhumey just it's sensitive skin but is moves around on my arms, the skin looks okay, hasn't been exposed to the sun or anything it just burns when anything touches it, even very lightly. and i...
a few weeks, after the hives had finally gone away, i had places on my arms (fairly large areas) that when touched felt like a burning sensation which hurts a lot. today it's back (along with my pink...
i've decided to do go ahead and get tested for heavy metals. i read some research where mice with genetic predispoitions to lupus developed the disease when exposed to heavy metals. i have the genes...
i have bone loss, but just this week it was determined to be from my immune system eating the bones up not prednisone. oy. has your dr looked into it being your immune system eating it up and not the...
i have eye pain too, as if i've been beaten! the socket around my eye and actual eyes. are you eyes blood shot as well? i look like i have terrible allergies or a drug habit all the time...but they...