Update for Sqad

[Eve.]

Saw rhumatology this morning. Got poked and prodded a lot and examined and went through a lot of stuff.

She's having a load of blood tests done - for lupus, antibodies and immune stuff and other things (said it may help show why I get so many infections so often) and did a urine test. When she said a full blood screen she wasn't kidding, they took about 10 things of blood! She also said they'd test hepatitis which threw me - not sure how that's related.

I'm going back for an ultrasound on my hands to look at the inflammation and get results in a few weeks.

My pain reactions are high on the fibromyalgia side of things and she is writing to my GP to ask her to prescribe a drug to help me get better quality sleep to try and help not feel so exhausted all the time. She said not amitriptilyne as it could make my dry mouth and eyes worse, fluoxetine it sounded like. Being referred back to physio too.

All got on top of me a bit and ended up in tears (crazy patient alert!), more with having to admit how much it's affected me and and struggling with day to day things. Good to feel like things might be getting towards some kind of answers and getting better.

[Sqad]

Than,s for the update Jenna.......sounds like " no stones left unturned". Eh?

[Eve.]

Yep :) Much I don't want anything nasty found, I just want to feel better again so will see what comes up. I'm just exhausted and fed up of it and just need a break!