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Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

DeadLetterOffice

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11. Woot!

Reply to Bertha Venation (Reply #8)

Thu Dec 31, 2015, 07:21 PM

Dec 2015

The things 'normal people' take for granted are often causes of celebration for us.

YAY STANDING!!

And here's hoping your prescribing psych has good ideas for judicious use of your anti-anxiety med -- if nothing else, to see if it's really an anxiety reaction or something else.

Best of luck and Happy New Year, you ambulatory creature, you!

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Lupus/Arthritis drug [View all] Bertha Venation Dec 2015 OP

I have lupus and an autoimmune neuromuscular thing as well NightWatcher Dec 2015 #1

I wish I could consume cannabis regularly. Bertha Venation Dec 2015 #4

Oops - forgot to say this Bertha Venation Dec 2015 #9

Just a thought - blood sugar? LiberalEsto Dec 2015 #2

That's what I thought it was, the first time it hit. Bertha Venation Dec 2015 #3

You're having enough troubles right now that an anxiety attack hedgehog Dec 2015 #5

Damn, hedgehog, you just cut to the chase, don't you? Bertha Venation Dec 2015 #7

Plaquenil side effects DeadLetterOffice Dec 2015 #6

Yeah! YAY, pain relief! Bertha Venation Dec 2015 #8

Woot! DeadLetterOffice Dec 2015 #11

I had the same reaction you did when I started taking plaquenil Pakhet Mar 2016 #15

Nope. You do need to find an ophthalmologist and get your retinas looked at Warpy Dec 2015 #10

It's good to know that one can take it for that long. Bertha Venation Jan 2016 #12

I like this site because patients tell you how they were helped or hurt by the drug womanofthehills Jan 2016 #13

That is a good site - Bertha Venation Jan 2016 #14