Hello.
I'm a newbie to your group tho have FMS/MPS/etc. & posted for many yrs
on amf.  Recently I've had such an increase in symptoms that my stepsis
talked me into checking out Lupus info.  Whoa!  Couldn't believe my
eyes!!  Answers sooo many things unexplained for Yrs.!!!

Tomorrow I go see my Pain doc w/my list of 15 matching symptoms &
research on meds & my cry to get me out of pain!  I was doin' ok on
40mg methadone (for pain only) but not now.  I've been waking up in
screaming pain & tears...I'm a musician & my hands especially are
screaming.  So 4a.m. I got up 4x this week to take ibuprofen w/my pain
meds.

I had planned on trying Cymbalta but now I just want to find out if
this is Lupus.  I was in hospital for a month w/pnuemonia in Feb./March
& then a month later have pleurisy & now my lung just swelled up for
the heckofit!!

Ok, sorry my first post is whiny...hmmm...maybe I'll wait to post this
...well?! maybe not cuz I need your input & experience.
Anyway, I'm just lettin' ya know I've been reading your ng for a couple
of weeks & thought I'd delurk due to many ??s  cuz I think I know a
couple of you from fibro. groups.
Healin' hugz to all,
Kindly,
LoriB.o.B.