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Sorry it has been so long guys.
We're still investigating possible lupus (SLE) or definitely an autoimmune disorder if not SLE. I'm thinking of all of you. Please keep me in your prayers and my family.
My grandfather is having an ileostomy Tuesday and a friend of my father's child (her name is Rylee; she's 5). She has to have major open heart surgery later this month and they're unsure of if she will come through okay.

Turns out, from the CT scan, I have atelectasis in my right lung. Not a huge amount, but enough to be of some concern. He will be doing another CT scan in about 2 months to make sure the area is not increasing any.

I also have dry pleurisy (I didn't even know there WAS a dry form), which explains chest pains and such. He ran another ESR. I go back in two weeks.

The med manager decided to change my medicine to 10 mg two times a day instead of once. Maybe this would help me in the evenings with my depression.

So, I wanted to let you all know.
Dr. Brandon sat with me. He thinks that this is the beginning CLUES of lupus (SLE) but that the inflammatory breakout was due to gardasil shot, which I had a week before the pains began to increase. The research he has given me shows that girls are actually dying from these injections. It helps some but doctors are quoting it as "killing more than it is saving." These girls have immediate respiratory reactions to the injection and die, but the numerous are not so great that it is immediately taken off market. You know how it goes. He says mine is not life threatening, but that the lupus likely has weakened my immune system so the injection has sat up an inflammatory process in my chest. I have a CAT scan Wednesday at 3.
He has seen the amount of pain I am in and is determined to do what he can to lower my pain level atm. He upped my meds to Lortab 7.5 and said that though he worries from time to time about patients developing addiction (not TOLERANCE, which he made very clear), he's more concerned about getting my pain level down.
The more research I did today, I found out what has happened. The gardasil DID do it, but it was the fact they gave me the tetanus WITH the gardasil that gave me the reaction. The gardasil is only FDA approved and tested to be taken safely with Hep vaccines, no others. So the tetanus had an adverse reaction, and with the possible lupus, flared up into an immune system problem. Yay.

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