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Submitted by admin on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 10:15.
The Lupus Drug Gold Mine
After decades of dead ends scientists find new treatments
Friday, January 22, 2010
Lupus has puzzled doctors since it was identified in the 1800s. For unknown reasons, the body makes antibodies against itself. Symptoms--ranging from fever to rashes to joint pain to kidney damage--come and go unpredictably. The average lupus patient waits four years and sees three doctors before getting an accurate diagnosis. There have been no new drugs in 50 years.
I still after 4 yrs have not
I still after 4 yrs have not recieved an accurate diagnosis. My skin itches really bad and if I use something like oil of olay I get pimples. Help!!!
Thank God. If a clinical
Thank God. If a clinical trial study comes to Oklahoma City I want to do it. I am 51 years old and was told in 1996 that I had positive ANA's but it was not until many doctors later that I got a positive diagnose of lupus in 2007 and another one in 2009 when my hands became red a swollen and my fingers started turning purple if the tempature was below 65 degrees. I am on plquenil now but the side effect with the eyes scare me.