Re: Intro to

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, welcome. Post whoever you wish to and hope you have fun with us.

I'm sure you will feel right at home with all the other Upstate NY members. Feel free to whine about winters, but not too much. We have doing enough of that already.

I'm not far from you - New Jersey, about 40 m from NY State.

Have fun.

Mojo

Intro

Hello,

My name is . I am 43, happily married and have had connective tissue disease since 1990. I have over lapping symptoms of Lupus, RA, and Sjogrens. I am disabled due three failed spinal surgeries, spinal stenosis, failed back syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, and chronic back pain. I have one sister with Lupus and one sister with RA. Luckily my brother does not have any connective tissue disease.

I was approved for SSD two weeks after they sent me to see their doc. That was three and a half years ago. My wife is a psychotherapist in private practice.

We live in upstate NY and are proudly owned by five cats and a nutty Jack Terrier.

I am on numerous medications, but am not currently on anything for the Lupus as I had surgery a couple of months ago. My rheumy is starting me on injectable Methotrexate soon and wants to make sure that I am well healed first. I am hoping I have a better reaction to the Methotrexate than my sister. It made her very ill. I was on Plaquenil for quite sometime, but I developed an allergy to it.

This seems like a great list.

Thank you.

Blessings,

Upstate New York

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