So Her Nibs has been to a rheumatologist who interrogated her, had her chest X-rayed, and put her on prednisone for the next two weeks as another diagnostic. The odds? Strong chance of seronegative rheumatoid arthritis, which is treatable and doesn't cause deformity like garden variety RA. She has localized fibromyalgia as what the doctor called a "fellow traveller". There's a remote chance of some form (lymphatic?) of cancer, but given that all her adult female blood relatives have some sort of autoimmune condition as RA is, it seems pretty unlikely to me. There will be more news as soon as I have some.
Her Nibs is pretty freaked because scary words like "cancer" are being bandied about. Personally, I'm glad we're getting out of this medical suspended animation we've been in for a couple of months.
Her Nibs is pretty freaked because scary words like "cancer" are being bandied about. Personally, I'm glad we're getting out of this medical suspended animation we've been in for a couple of months.
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Date: 2002-12-13 02:25 am (UTC)From:Re:
Date: 2002-12-13 09:02 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2002-12-13 12:15 pm (UTC)From:Take heart: the effects occur less at lower doses, and it sounds like she's not going to be on a big dose for very long at all. He started around 60mg and tapered off gradually over a year, and his side effect threshold seemed to be around the 20mg mark.
For more info, see http://my.webmd.com/content/article/4046.1741#sideeffects