hey guys,
I am in so much pain, have felt like this for two weeks since coming off methotrexate a month ago and switching to Arava(proving to be useless). I am exhausted, dizzy, feel sick, painful joints, painful muscles in tops of arms and thighs (feel bruised cant even be touched), costochondritis..really bad chest hurts all over aswell as in normal costo places!, headache, cold sweats...like all my lupus symptoms at once really bad...have been on prednisolone for past two weeks and keep trying to taper it down but any less than 30mg and i cant even walk as my ankles swell up and so do my fingers! but my ESR is 9!! how can this be?! i feel the worst ever and all my blood work is fine! My gp probably doesnt believe me at all...have brought forward rheumy appointment to next tues(18th)but is he going to believe me when my blood work is so perfect? why is it not showing up?! theres got to be something making me feel so ill..i havent been able to work or anything. has anyone else had this problem? sorry really long post..but i am actually feeling really down now..is this in my head?! xxxx
I am in so much pain, have felt like this for two weeks since coming off methotrexate a month ago and switching to Arava(proving to be useless). I am exhausted, dizzy, feel sick, painful joints, painful muscles in tops of arms and thighs (feel bruised cant even be touched), costochondritis..really bad chest hurts all over aswell as in normal costo places!, headache, cold sweats...like all my lupus symptoms at once really bad...have been on prednisolone for past two weeks and keep trying to taper it down but any less than 30mg and i cant even walk as my ankles swell up and so do my fingers! but my ESR is 9!! how can this be?! i feel the worst ever and all my blood work is fine! My gp probably doesnt believe me at all...have brought forward rheumy appointment to next tues(18th)but is he going to believe me when my blood work is so perfect? why is it not showing up?! theres got to be something making me feel so ill..i havent been able to work or anything. has anyone else had this problem? sorry really long post..but i am actually feeling really down now..is this in my head?! xxxx