Now that I'm fighting off a viral thingie

[JoD]

Why do I feel so well? Outside of the virus that is. I have been on imuran for about a year and was recently taken off it and switched to methotraxate because of low WBC. I took my first dose of metho last Friday( 5mg) and Sat I felt yucky, but thought was to be expected from everything I read. I went to work Sat and Saturday night I began having a dry cough and running a fever. Sunday the fever got up to 102 at times but went up and down. Monday,I again went to work coughing a bit and a bit feverish but by Monday night the cough was uncontrollable and the fever was staying at 102. Tuesday I called my PCP who is versed in lupus, fever was approaching 103. Lung Xray was clear thank goodness. It was determined it was viral and no metho till I'm back up to par. I feeling better today, well enough to know that my joints and muscles aren't aching, whereas before the cough started at the end of a day of work( cashier) I would couldn't move without pain. So what gives? I haven't been on any lupus meds since Friday ( metho, predisone or plaquenil)...were they the reason for all the pain? It's been a very long time since I've been this sick but my joints and muscles( except my side muscles from coughing) haven't felt this good in an equally long time.
Joanne

[helloos]

Hmmmm....that is very interesting. Unless the drugs are still in your system. You were feeling pain while on the meds, and now you are off, and feel better. I would address this with your rhemo. I would be second guessing this all too if I were you.

My only other thought is sometimes when something is stronger, say your cough and fever, your brain is concentrating on that big aggrivation and taking its thought off the other pain because it over powers it. That is only my thought and I don't even know if I said it right.

Interested to hear your doctors response to this one and yours.

[JoD]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(helloos @ Jun 15 2006, 02:32 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
Hmmmm....that is very interesting. Unless the drugs are still in your system. You were feeling pain while on the meds, and now you are off, and feel better. I would address this with your rhemo. I would be second guessing this all too if I were you.

My only other thought is sometimes when something is stronger, say your cough and fever, your brain is concentrating on that big aggrivation and taking its thought off the other pain because it over powers it. That is only my thought and I don't even know if I said it right.

Interested to hear your doctors response to this one and yours.
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The cough is still there almost as bad as before. The fever still spikes through out the day but is in the 99-100 range, so bearable. I'm waiting for my rhuemy to give me an anwser to what drugs to go back onto.
With the fever down, I'm back to left sided aches and pain. The weird thing is words really aren't coming out the way I mean them to and I'm hearing what people say totally wrong. Yesterday I heard my 17 year old ask me if he and his 11 year old brother who has spastic quad CP could sleep over at his 16 year old girlfriends house!!!
style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/afraid.gif style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/notlook.gif Of course I said no immediately and was begining to yell at him when he looked at me strangly and asked what I thought he asked me. I told him and he started laughing hysterically...he had asked if he and his brother could go to the movies with his girlfriend. Fortunately I have a neuro appointment on monday and hopefully the rhuemy will get back to me later today or by tomorrow.