October 11, was my appointment. I was lucky to have both my Mom and Hubby with me. The Doctor in charge dismissed the Dr. underneath him, diagnosis of the Mixed Connective Tissue Disease. I still have the 3 auto-immune diseases, Lupus, Fibromyalgia and Sjogrens, but they do not qualify for that title. It was a good visit, I had been feeling well. The last, added med they gave me helped. I had been feeling down about how many pills I have to swallow twice a day. I asked if I could decrease the Gabapentin for the Fibromyalgia, they said yes it was safe to decrease. Blood pressure was really good, I lost 2 pounds since last visit, thats a total of 12 pounds since January. Doctor ordered lab, as usual. Now he wants to find out the range of the Lupus.
Well here I am a month later. I decreased the Gabapentin. It didn't work. I started to feel symptoms again. Stabbing pain in my shoulder. Just feeling miserable and tired. I put myself up to the dose I was on before. Now I am feeling better. However, today, I am feeling sad, for no reason. I don't know if this is because of the med, cause it happen to me before, but at a higher level of anxiety. Or is this pms. I even had a sad dream last night. I wrote that in my other blog. Its, one of those, "just gotta get through the day" days. I haven't had one in a long time.
