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I am wondering if anyone can help me please? My rheumy has said there is nothing he can do for me other than pred and that is really not a long term option - at the moment i am on 30mg every couple of weeks and it is just not a long term option. I have just lost my voice yet again and have yet another chest infection. Not to mention the fatigue and pains in legs wrists knuckles and hands. Anyway - apparently all my bloods are normal now and the ANA which was positive is now negative. So he thinks it is not lupus but something else to which he cant name. Because of my neutropenia he wont prescribe plaquenil or other meds mean while my hair is thinning and symptoms r getting worse. Pain in upper stomach and swelling of feet getting worse.....
Anyway have decided on a second opinion to St. Thomas, however, i am irish and i am aware that my health insurance wont pay. So am wondering - does anyone know what sort of costs i am looking at? Assuming of course that they will take me - my GP today said it could cost thousands...
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Elaine
I am wondering if anyone can help me please? My rheumy has said there is nothing he can do for me other than pred and that is really not a long term option - at the moment i am on 30mg every couple of weeks and it is just not a long term option. I have just lost my voice yet again and have yet another chest infection. Not to mention the fatigue and pains in legs wrists knuckles and hands. Anyway - apparently all my bloods are normal now and the ANA which was positive is now negative. So he thinks it is not lupus but something else to which he cant name. Because of my neutropenia he wont prescribe plaquenil or other meds mean while my hair is thinning and symptoms r getting worse. Pain in upper stomach and swelling of feet getting worse.....
Anyway have decided on a second opinion to St. Thomas, however, i am irish and i am aware that my health insurance wont pay. So am wondering - does anyone know what sort of costs i am looking at? Assuming of course that they will take me - my GP today said it could cost thousands...
Hugs
Elaine