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Double trouble?

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Lizfor
Lizfor

I saw my rheumatologist on Friday and he put my steroids back up to 50 as they had been decreased from 60 to 40 in 5 days by another doctor and I was finding it intolerable. The plan is to decrease by 5mg every two weeks until I get down to 20mg when the decreasing will be slowed down.

I was having trouble with my voice, and happened to say that I was sorry about my voice, that I seem to lose it every afternoon but it was always alright in the morning. That seemed to be significant to him, he had his registrar with him and he was explaining to her what he thought it might be connected to. The upshot is that I am to have a blood test looking for markers for Myasthenia Gravis. Never heard of it but have looked it up since. He said he didn’t think I had, so that’s positive. Is it possible to have two autoimmune things going on at once?

 

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    Mrs_CJ Lizfor

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    Doubtful that this is what you have.....but I wanted to mention that I had voice issues for quite awhile and finally discovered (from this forum) that I have silent acid reflux. I didn't lose my voice but I sounded hoarse and it took effort to talk with much volume. 

    Acid reflux can be a side effect of prednisone.

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