Subject: Doctor who says lupies are not prone to allergies!!!

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I just wanted to make my first post. First of all I just wanted to

make a blanket thankyou to all who welcomed me in the first place

with your warm welcome. Second I would like to respond to the

allergies issue I find that all who are afflicted with these auto-

immune

issues do have allergies includding myself. Which in my brain makes

sense because if the body is so oversensitive that it attacks its own

protien, muscles etc... might this all start as a allergic tendency

toward allergens?. Anyways let me introduce myself I am 43

years old from ohio and female I was struck down in october of 2001

with aches and pains that just would not go away. Unfortunately I was

thrust into the world of vague pain diagnosis; which I have come to

think that my primary care physcian thinks I am psycho, but I do not

care anymore. It took me until the following year to get to a

rhuemetoligist which was my lifeline to sanity. I have reynaurds,

arthritis, muscle involvement, elevated sed rate, etc.. many ongoing

issues with this but still no firm diagnosis.I also have the

sunsesitivity and migranes with this. I love the ever changing

aspects of what I am going through and a lack of respect by my

primary dr. My rhuemetoligist asked me if he gave me anything for my

migranes and I said " no he checked to see if I was pregnant " . My

Rhuemetoligist just shook his head when I told him that my primary

thinks I am a physco with the ever changing vague pains from my

disease .He said this is normal for a primary dr. facing a suspected

lupus patient for the first time perhaps in his career. Anyways I

have

theory on why so many people have auto immune diseases around my area

(NE OHIO) we are sitting on a super fund site that was full of

chromiun (same as Brokvich in california) I also over heard

my primary telling his nurse that he sees a above average amount of

auto-immune diseases. It seems big business has poisoned us here in

Ohio .Anyone have a opionion on this feel free to reply, even my vet

says he sees things in his animals that are not age appropiate or

above average amounts eg.. tumors etc.. Even my dog less than two

years

old has asthma and arthritis. go figure. Anyways onto another subject

I too also have the female problems I am having exploritory surgery

this coming tuesday for chronic pelvic pain. Anyways as for a

diagnosis my rhuemetoligist says it is looking more like lupus but

with some people it takes longer to reveal itself clearly. I am

having a horrible weekend since I am off of my anti-inflamitories

because of the surgery Tuesday. The pain is starting to get to me and

tylenol just doesn't help muscle and joint pain. Any suggestion on

what to do to survive till Tuesday without the anti-inflamitories?Oh

my the way my name is n see you all later.