MCTD Support Group
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) or Sharp's syndrome is a human autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body. MCTD combines features of polymyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and systemic scleroderma and is thus considered an overlap syndrome. MCTD commonly causes joint pain/swelling, Raynaud phenomenon, muscle inflammation, and scarring of...
Heads should be rolling that you were blown off on Friday and in the hospital with a potentially life threatening emergency over the weekend.
Clots are not something to mess with. I urge you to seek another opinion.
Hang in there...
@ Roseis Doc got confused on the phone and thought i was changing to a chemo when i was changing dose on my biological.
@ Cat Its seeming like the office visits arent what they use to be. I know my body and seem to get my best work done in ER's. it isnt cost effective but better results and quicker response. get in here more, I wana know if I'm ever going to beable to get another tat.
I'm so tired of feeling like shit and looking "ok" on the outside, so very few understand.
I got a taste of normalcy with a Medrol dose pack and it reminded me why I keep fighting.
I have a shirt that says: Today my immune system attacked my own body. What did yours do?
I wear it on particularly shitty days.