Promising...

[songblaze]

So, I don't remember if I mentioned that early last month, I started a new medication (Plaquenil) along with a course of prednisone in an attempt to make my immune system play nice. My rheumatologist and I decided to retry it secondary to the methotrexate, which has not been controlling my very cranky immune system well enough, especially not

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[ashbet]

Fingers very much crossed -- and I hope that it was the prednisone that caused the blurring!!! <3

[songblaze]

You and me both! But it makes sense. I'd been on this dosage of the Plaquenil for months in 2012-2013, and the only thing I had happen was the stomach stuff that we are now reasonably sure was my gallstones (since it was a milder variation of exactly the same pain I had when my gallstones went the time that was bad enough for me to end up in the ER and getting it removed). We had just assumed that the Plaquenil was causing it because A) it is known to cause some stomach upset/pain, and B) it started not long after I first started the Plaquenil, and C) it happened at the time I took my Plaquenil...which was also when I ate dinner, which we now think is what was ACTUALLY triggering the pain