My girlfriend has been taking heavy doses of Antibiotics for the
treatment of Lyme disease for 4 years now and is begining to have
damage to her liver.  I have been doing research and found that her
symptoms match those of Lupus.

Shelagh's mother passed away this past Wednesday morning.  She has a large
family full of love and support, but I think because of this, their mother
will be missed all the more.
I thought I would let you know, so we all can be sending our "prayers" or

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CONCLUSION: Serum ferritin levels may be a useful marker of disease
activity in SLE patients
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Has anyone experienced palpitations with any medications? I am having them
especially at night when I am relaxed and trying to get to sleep.
I went to the doctor with it because I thought he might be giving me too
much synthroid. He tested my blood and it came back that I need more

In the news there seems to be a big thing with people going across the
border, into Canada at Windsor. They are buying the sunblock that is
illegal in the USA. But very effective Sunblock.   The two they are talking
about is L'Oreal products, Ombrelle and the expensive one ...

I mean, hot outside... come on in.
115* yesterday!  Thank God for the air conditioning.
I'm in CA in the central valley..... it's hot here but 115* is just wrong.
Same weather today and I have to go out.

I'M SO SORRY, MY LAST POST APPEARED REALLY OBNOXIOUS AND DEMANDING, DIDN'T
MEAN TO SOUND LIKE THAT I'M JUST REALLY FED UP + IT LOOKS LIKE I TOOK IT OUT
ON THE FIRST REPLY- YOU WERE IT!
SORRY AGAIN,

I just got my grade on my term paper. I have the only "A" in the class and
it counts as 1/3 of my grade. Yippee!!!!!!!
Only two weeks of classes left. Thank goodness - maybe I can be human,
again.

My wife has been diagnosed with discoid lupus (at least initially, the
dermatologist is 90% sure, but we're waiting the results of the
biopsy).
I really don't know where to turn at this point, and after some poking

After the Jasper thing, and me pulling my back out and getting over that.
Now yesterday morning going down the stairs I ended turning my ankle and
ending up in a heap with my guitar on top of me. Now I have a turned ankle
that is turning black and blue. What next! Some mornings its ...

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/85/98467.htm#

I just had the most awful weekend of my life. Friday because of pressure
from my husband and a friend, I took my beloved Cat, Jasper, to the vet to
have him declawed. I am talking about a cat that was so human-like it was
weird. He slept in my arms every night. I took him in at 7:30 ...

Hi this is her son here. She has asked me to post a message for her as she
currently has no internet access.
She is currently not to good as on Friday she had a fall in the kitchen and
has subsequently broken her leg and banged her face.

I had been on immuran for the last two years with mixed results. So my
doc and I decided to switch to Cellcept. Since then, my symptoms have
worsened, and I have just developed Shingles, which has left me totally
debilitated and popping a Vicodin every 4 hours for the pain. Has

Hi Deb here, this is just a quickie, I've had all my tests done c/o optical
neurology so here we go;
ECG normal
CAROTID DOPLER normal