Quick visit to the hospital today.<\/p>\n
Well – 2 hours actually but only about 10-15 minutes of that time was spent actually talking to a medic. Seems my bloodwork has normalised again which might explain why I’ve been relatively free from the really nasty joint pain and had very few ‘flu-type’ bouts over the past 3 months.<\/p>\n
Still withholding an official diagnosis but unofficially classing it as ‘mild lupus’. Turns out I should have been on a double dose of the Plaquenil for 3 months not<\/strong> three weeks as I was told but they’ve told me to stick with the single dose for now as, in the longer term, it doesn’t really matter.<\/p>\n Not due back again for another 6 months – fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quick visit to the hospital today. Well – 2 hours actually but only about 10-15 minutes of that time was spent actually talking to a medic. Seems my bloodwork has normalised again which might explain why I’ve been relatively free from the really nasty joint pain and had very few ‘flu-type’ bouts over the past 3 months. Still withholding an official diagnosis but unofficially classing it as ‘mild lupus’. Turns out I should have been on a double dose of the Plaquenil for 3 months not three weeks as I was told but they’ve told me to stick with the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}