Happy New Year and Welcome to year of 2015! I hope y'all had a very good thanksgiving, christmas and new years eve.
After two months of waiting on the mobic and cymbalta trials the medications work BUT this is a factor for anyone that has any autoimmune diseases. The weather depending which kind ya are. Specifically the COLD weather will increase your symptoms. What I mean by that is that yes the medication is in your system to control your medical issues but it still gives you the shocks, the inflammations, where it feels like someone put the brother sewing machine on your finger tips repeatedly, where it uh hurts to breathe. Which is why we layer ourselves in extra clothing, hot showers, uh hot beverages sometimes making the house nice and cozy by putting the heater on (but for me I don't know if anyone else experience this as well but the hearter drives me fuckin mad lol I get very fidgety, agitated, I just can't stand it when I sleep and during the day. I prefer the small heaters not the all central heating).
So yes the medication that I will be trying is called
'Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquine)' that is one of the other medications prescribed for lupus patients the other is called Prednisone. My specialist suggested that at first but changed her mind to Plaquenil because I have an overlap disease (MCTD) that overlaps lupus among other autoimmune diseases. Hopefully this medication does not mess me up dramatically. I have asked other Lupus patients on MyLupusTeam and they love the medication. So yes I hope it helps if not then I don't know what my other options are.
After two months of waiting on the mobic and cymbalta trials the medications work BUT this is a factor for anyone that has any autoimmune diseases. The weather depending which kind ya are. Specifically the COLD weather will increase your symptoms. What I mean by that is that yes the medication is in your system to control your medical issues but it still gives you the shocks, the inflammations, where it feels like someone put the brother sewing machine on your finger tips repeatedly, where it uh hurts to breathe. Which is why we layer ourselves in extra clothing, hot showers, uh hot beverages sometimes making the house nice and cozy by putting the heater on (but for me I don't know if anyone else experience this as well but the hearter drives me fuckin mad lol I get very fidgety, agitated, I just can't stand it when I sleep and during the day. I prefer the small heaters not the all central heating).
So yes the medication that I will be trying is called
'Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquine)' that is one of the other medications prescribed for lupus patients the other is called Prednisone. My specialist suggested that at first but changed her mind to Plaquenil because I have an overlap disease (MCTD) that overlaps lupus among other autoimmune diseases. Hopefully this medication does not mess me up dramatically. I have asked other Lupus patients on MyLupusTeam and they love the medication. So yes I hope it helps if not then I don't know what my other options are.