Hi J,
I am worried that things have worsened with your pc. Can't get in touch
because of mail bouncing. I hope you are okay and that you can read this, at
least. I will be thinking about you.

I was supposed to go down to UCSF (a 60-mile drive) to see my rheumie on
Monday.  Well I have been having trouble with my back.  I stayed in bed all
darn weekend with my legs elevated, in the hope that my back would be better
on Monday, and I could make the drive to UCSF.  But alas, ...

I have completely lost my hearing on my left ear the only thing that I hear
is a constant noise, sometimes very loud, similar to the one that the ants
made in the 1954 sc-fi movie Them!   Does anyone know if this is related to
lupus?  At one point the otolaryngologist was treating ...

I know very little about lupus.  I do not have lupus but my wife does.  Can
men get lupus?  I have never heard of a man with this disease?  I was
recently in an accident and my wife with lupus has had to go back to work.
When she comes home she wants to do nothing but sleep.  Is ...

Hi Melanie
I mention this on my site www.monicaslupus.co.uk/aboutlupus.htm it used to
be called Lupus Ceribitis and is now eferred to as Neuropsychiatric-SLE
(NP-SLE) confused?? dead right I am but a visit to

It's trying really hard to be Spring and there is nothing like a little warm
weather to give me a good case of Spring Fever. I'm not totally sure what
all I did this weekend but I did enjoy it! Saturday morning I ran a few
errand and then cut tiles in the afternoon. Lots of cut ...

Hey Nina!
How's your exams going?
You know, I had no idea you were going for a medical degree.   If you've
mentioned it, I sure don't recall.  You go though!  That's just awesome!

About 10days ago, I had an ultrasound guided steroid injection.
I got immediate pain relief to the local shoulder area and it's still
holding.
Yippee ! I no longer have severe pain with me 24/7 in that area.

I feel really depressed right now, in spite of the fact that I feel so
much better.  Kip and I are married 24 years as of today.  I am so
happy and blessed to have her, and I need to snap out of this fast!  I
know it is the steroids, I just know it.  A lot of you know the

I made a little poem back in 2000, and once I made it, I realized I could
only share it once every 4 years!
Leap Day
Where did that moment go

http://www.gnc.com/health_notes/Concern/Pap_Smear.htm  Nutritional
supplements that may be helpful: Large amounts of folic acid?10 mg per
day?have been shown to improve the abnormal Pap smears of women who are
taking birth control pills. Folic acid does not improve the Pap smears

Cindy and Wende you guys are close. Who is good here in our area? The RD I
was going to for years has changed staff and I do not like them at all. Went
in for remacade and the nurse could not even get my veins and when she did
it popped. This is the second time this has happened.

I had the sMRCP this afternoon.  It took an hour and a half, but only
the last 15 minutes were troublesome.  That's when they injected the
secretin, and wow, did it ever work!  I became very nauseous, but I
made it through to the end.  I'm not sure how long it will be until