
Suggest Remedy For Severe Pain While Suffering From Lupus

Counselling for chronic illness
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Dear XXXX,
I would like to thank you first for your trust in HCM. I will answer your question to the best I can.
First I can sense the hardships you are going through and the effect of the disease on your life. luckily you have good support group of friends and family.
As I read that you are a psychologist which will make it easier for me to address certain issues regarding how to deal with your current situation.
Dealing with chronic rheumatology syndromes requires the patient to be ready psychologically for a long treatment course. Those syndromes present themselves in flares and those flares can be seasonal sometimes or related to amount of stress in life. Answering your key question is this deterioration of health is related to developing this chronic disease, the course of those syndromes is usually a progressive course meaning more symptoms develop with time. Sadly conventional treatment of immune suppressing agents is not always helpful and sometimes lead to other side effects. Its key to keep an eye on liver function tests while on methotroxate but I will not address the therapy since you are already under proper supervision. Bottom line dealing with chronic illness requires you to be psychologically prepared for the changes that might ensue due to such a disease. I advise to visit a psychiatrist who will be able to prepare you for dealing with the chronic manifestations of the disease.
Addressing the psychological aspect of the disease will help and boost not only your emotional state but will help combating the stress that the body is going through and might as an end result help in recovering and limiting the deterioration. I am glad you try to do some exercise this is very helpful try to not go heavy or hard in your workouts but stretching and yoga are recommended.
If the current immune suppression medications are not suppressing the progression of symptoms you can always discuss other treatment modalities with your treating physicians.
Please feel free to provide more details or to ask any other question. I wish you a fast recovery and good health.
Kind regards,
Dr. Nazzal

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