BuffyS
Status: After a 2 year remission, my MCTD symptoms have returned. Chronic pain and fatigue are becoming my new normal.
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- Since my remission ended, I started taking gabapentin (300 mg) again to deal with the pains and tingling, especially in my legs. Well, I've taken maybe a total of 5 of these things over the course of 3 days, and I just collapsed outside my house! My...
- Since my remission ended, I started taking gabapentin (300 mg) again to deal with the pains and tingling, especially in my legs. Well, I've taken maybe a total of 5 of these things over the course of 3 days, and I just collapsed outside my house! ...
- Anyone experience going off this med, then getting back on it? This is my situation and I would like input:I was taking gaba 300 ml 3X per day when I was suffering from severe peripheral neuropathy. The flares gradually went away and I weaned...
- Hi, all. I was very active in these forums a couple of years ago when I got very sick and was diagnosed with MCTD and fibro. Lost every ounce of excess fat on my body, was very weak, fatigued, and suffered constant muscle and joint aches and...
- How did we all suddenly get sick? And why can't we be cured? I suspect I was poisoned by cipro. Seems after 2 days on the stuff, all of a sudden I had incredible joint pain. Then diagnosed with parvo and autoimmune. Hmmmm.....rheumatologist...
- Just came back from a very insulting appointment with my rheumy. He said based on my lab work, the plaquinel and tramadol should be all i need for my mixed connective tissue disease (an auto immune disease for those of you who never heard of it). ...
- I'm seeing a neuro in a couple of weeks b/c my rheumy says all my peripheral pain and tingling is not from anything he can treat. How were you tested/treated by a neuro to reach your dx?
- My daughter sent me a very nasty, long e-mail in the middle of the night where she vented all her anger at me for withholding contact of both myself and my granddaughter from her for the last 5 months.I took this text message to the therapist I've...
- My ED sent me a very long, nasty text at 4:00 in the morning. My phone broke it into 20 pieces so my phone chirped 20 times between 4 and 4:30, waking me up in the middle of the night. I took her text to the therapist my granddaughter and I have...
- So I went back to my rheumatologist for the first time in six months. I had been on Plaquinel most of that time and got bloodwork done 3 weeks before the appointment, as well as a baseline eye exam b/c Plaquinel can possibly damage the eyes.The...
- I've started having "trigger finger" and general finger stiffness and pain. This freaks me out because my mother has RA really bad and her hands are like claws now (she is 79 years old, but her hands have been a mess for many years). Anyone here...
- When your 5 year old mouths off to you, and you tell them to tone it down, and they just keep taunting and back talking, have you ever lost your temper? This happened to me a few days ago, and I slapped my kid. I try to never ever use any kind of...
- My grand's paternal aunt showed up with gifts and handed me a gift bag. I didn't realize right away that she had found the gift bag at my front door, but that it had been left by my daughter for my grand. She opened a wrapped gift, and it was "The...
- It's been a full month since I last spoke with my daughter. I find myself checking facebook regularly to see if she's sent me a message. I'm amazed that she has not sent even one. This tells me she really does not want contact with me or her own...
- My 25 year old daughter, undiagnosed but with an obvious personality disorder, has created havoc in my family's life since she was 14 years old. She had a baby in 2006 who my husband and I have raised from birth and have adopted.We tried vigorously...