Hello.
I'm here for a moan if that's ok... Ever since I had rituximab, my lupus blood results have been getting better and better, and I've managed to reduce my pred too - woo! However, I feel rubbish. Muscle aches, like the ones you get when you have the flu, on and off sore throat, and constant (but not bad) neck pain. Plus swollen eyelids in the morning, which I used to get when my kidneys were dodgy (urine/blood looked fine last month though). The muscle aches and the sore throat could be an infection, but it's been getting on for three months now, as have the neck problems. None of it's bad, but combined it's beginning to drain me. I'm living on paracetamol and I really don't want to be. And then some days I wonder if it's all in my head because its all fairly mild.
Help?
I'm here for a moan if that's ok... Ever since I had rituximab, my lupus blood results have been getting better and better, and I've managed to reduce my pred too - woo! However, I feel rubbish. Muscle aches, like the ones you get when you have the flu, on and off sore throat, and constant (but not bad) neck pain. Plus swollen eyelids in the morning, which I used to get when my kidneys were dodgy (urine/blood looked fine last month though). The muscle aches and the sore throat could be an infection, but it's been getting on for three months now, as have the neck problems. None of it's bad, but combined it's beginning to drain me. I'm living on paracetamol and I really don't want to be. And then some days I wonder if it's all in my head because its all fairly mild.
Help?