Hi everyone hope you all keeping as well as you can!
My rheumy appointment finally arrived yesterday(yippee!!!!) I was told that blood tests were ok but upon seeing how much pain I am in and after rheumy examined me he decided that I needed a steroid injection straight into the muscle in my bottom because of the ACUTE pain and swelling. This was my first steriod injection which was a little scary.
I've been getting worse for the last 3 weeks since I was in the garden and my eye became swollen and sore. To add to everything else I was taken to A&E on Monday evening. I was talking to my husband and my right hand completely froze and tightened up. I straight away got really scared by this as I didn't know what was happening!!
I had no feeling or movement and my hand also turned extremely blue. The hospital were fantastic and I explained that I was under investigation for Lupus. Because my blood pressure, pulse and tepmerature were high they took me straight through and put me on an ECG ( which again was a first and scary). They had a consultant to me who mentioned 'collagen disease' and then a vascular surgeon looked at me. He was great and too said it could be down to lupus but needed to check me over as the symptoms were same as a blood clot.
My rheumy was interested to hear all this and after my examination said he would like me to have a 'bone density scan'? not right sure what this is so if you got any clues I'd be VERY GRATEFUL.
Also rheumy wants me back into him next Friday so we'll see if there are any more firsts for me?
Thanks for reading and hope you've not dropped to sleep yet AH! AH! ( I must try to keep things shorter ):lol:
Luv Mrs M
My rheumy appointment finally arrived yesterday(yippee!!!!) I was told that blood tests were ok but upon seeing how much pain I am in and after rheumy examined me he decided that I needed a steroid injection straight into the muscle in my bottom because of the ACUTE pain and swelling. This was my first steriod injection which was a little scary.
I've been getting worse for the last 3 weeks since I was in the garden and my eye became swollen and sore. To add to everything else I was taken to A&E on Monday evening. I was talking to my husband and my right hand completely froze and tightened up. I straight away got really scared by this as I didn't know what was happening!!
My rheumy was interested to hear all this and after my examination said he would like me to have a 'bone density scan'? not right sure what this is so if you got any clues I'd be VERY GRATEFUL.
Also rheumy wants me back into him next Friday so we'll see if there are any more firsts for me?
Thanks for reading and hope you've not dropped to sleep yet AH! AH! ( I must try to keep things shorter ):lol:
Luv Mrs M