Re: Plaquenil??

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I took it for RA for quite awhile. If I remember correctly ( it was a bit ago)

it did help, for a while.

Get your eyesight checked regularly and oftener than you think necessary.

Demand the full daa sheet or PDR page from your Dr or pharmacist. those things

are enlightening and scary.Asi recall it can do liver damage (ok what druf

doesn't) so ask for liver function tests periodically. .

Hope it helps

Jan

luckyladybugz3@... wrote:

Does anyone here take Plaquenil? Good results? Bad?

I would appreciate any advice!!!

Prescribed for MCTD.

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[Guest guest]

--- In rheumatic , luckyladybugz3@...

> Hello LuckyLady my name is Sheri and I to have mixed connective

tissue disorder and I take Hydrooxychloroquine and it seems to be

helping, but who really knows what's going on, I mean i have the

ocassional swelling and pain but i guess that never really goes away. I

was diagnosed in my early twenties with this and I am now 32. I think

if a doctor tried to put me on something else I would be to scared god

knows what other problems would come along with that. Like I said I

haven't had any problems with my medicine, I hope this has helped.

Sheri

[Guest guest]

Plaquenil has worked well for me. My rheumatologist put me on it

almost immediately along with celebrex. As I started AP I have

started to wean off the plaquenil -- I started at 400 mg daily, went

down to 300, and now I am at 200mg -- just one pill daily. I am a

little scared to stop it completely.

It's a pretty benign medication. My husband is an ophthomologist,

and he has seen many RA/plaquenil patients over the years, and none

who have actually developed any of the eye complications. He has

seen some people for whom the plaquenil stopped working and they had

to move on to stronger medications.

I like my regimen of mino MWF and 1 plaq daily. Maybe eventually I

will get up the courage to stop the plaquenil -- but I am feeling

really good right now -- gut is okay, joints are doing pretty well,

even fatigue is better -- I believe 'let sleeping dogs lie' -- and

my rheumy really likes this medicine. So .... I will wait a few more

months before contemplating any more changes.

Try it.

Bonnie Lou

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> Does anyone here take Plaquenil? Good results? Bad?

> I would appreciate any advice!!!

> Prescribed for MCTD.

>

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