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This new one admitted that she isn't an expert on lupus, although2 others in the practice are, but since my last ANA was negative (although it was originally very high), I couldn't possibly have lupus. She's running a whole battery of blood tests and named a list of autoimmune disorders it could be instead.
I guess my whole point is, wish me luck. I get the results on Wednesday. Let's hope it's not anything more serious or less easy to treat. I'd like to start 2012 on a high note.View Thread


2. Chilly nights (perfect for sleeping)
3. Lovely colors
4. Mums
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2. Age both actual and how old you mentally feel. I'm 53 years old, and often feel older than my 75 year-old mother.
3. Married/kids? I'm married for 30 years and still going strong. I have two grown kids; a son who is 27, and a daughter (also with lupus) who is 25. I also have two dogs, one of which is my service dog.
4. How long have you had lupus? I was diagnosed in 2004, bur, like most of us, I know I had it long before that. I had many symptoms by late in high school.
5. As lupus loves to throw a party, do you have any other autoimmune diseases? Yes, I have fibromyalgia. I also have mild psoriasis, that was basically mentioned once by my doctor & I ignored it, because I didn't want to add a dermatologist to my list of doctors. Didn't know it was autoimmune. Huh.View Thread


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My daughter-in-law is a nurse and hates the 1 - 10 scale as much as I do. She works in the post-surgical unit, so she's dealing with a different type of pain, but she asks questions like, "Can you carry on a conversation?" "Can you sit still long enough to watch a TV show? a movie?" I know she's dealing with acute pain, but we can take a page from her book by describing what we honestly can and can't do with our level of pain at the time.View Thread
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