Leflunomide sarcoidosis
Common Questions and Answers about Leflunomide sarcoidosis
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i take the leflunomide (arava) but also take pills for the reflux, which does help. I take renitidine i believe it is called. I found it worked pretty good for the swelling myself. I am also on the Embrel, but still do not have R.A under control. I just wanted to say that the arava was the best drug i have taken up until i was put on the embrel. I live in B.
He has been on a combination of Arava 20 mg ( Hydroxychloroquine) and Plaquenil (Leflunomide) . He has been going severly downhill since January and has lost 40 pounds, has constant mucous drainage that he chokes on especially after meals, and has severe shortness of breath. Can these symptoms be a result of the medications he is taking? Is it safe for him to take two synthetic DMARDS at the same time?
Do you think this could be sarcoidosis? and Can you have both lupus and Sarcoidosis? My father has some sx also seem to fit. Would either parent have to have it for me to have it? Seems like all females in my family have health issues. Aunt with sever Rheumatoid Arthritis. Is there any genetic testing that can be done to see if this could be my health issues? Both my parents are still living but are 79 and 80yo. Any suggestions??
I was diagnosed with sarcoidosis in 2000. I never took steroids choosing instead to do alternative medicine. In 2003-2004 I tried the Marshall Protocol, but admit to never feeling much different than I did when I was just doing my alternatives. It is now 2009 and for the last 3 days, I have had a relapse of sorts feeling extreme pain in my liver/spleen areas.
I was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis in Nov. I have quite extensive lung involvement and we are trying to make sure that there is no heart involvement. During Nov./ Dec. I was having leg, hand and arm cramps that basically locked my limb so it couldn't move. I had it checked out but no one could tell me what was wrong.
I have been on prednisone now since Nov. and we tried to cut the dose from 40 to 20 without luck and minimal response from the sardoid.
Why can't we find a cure for SARCOIDOSIS? Why is there not more awareness for this terrible disease? It has affected my husbands liver. He now has cirrhosis and needs a liver transplant. He can't tolerate prednisone very well. What other drugs could be used? Are there any Sarcoidosis doctors in the Cleveland Ohio area?
I have pulmonary sarcoidosis, manifested by coughing with accompanying shortness of breath, tiredness, sore throat, and runny nose. My main questions are:
1. Are there alternative treatments other than traditional medicines?
2. I'm not sure what triggers the coughing spells. Could aerobic exercise and playing the harmonic initiate the cough?
3. Other than prednisone and the other usual medications, how can I control the coughing?
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Patients with Graves’ disease may also have concomitant conditions of sarcoidosis affecting the lungs. Patients with systemic sarcoidosis may also develop sarcoid lesions in various organs including the thyroid gland.
Sarcoidosis of the thyroid gland usually results in hypothyroidism due to fibrosis of thyroid tissue or interference with the function of normal thyroid cells.
i have been dignosed with lung sarcoidosis, i take advair and blood presure medication, i do exercise and watch my diet, but i caugh a lot and don,t have energy and have a lot of muscle pain. could somebody tell me how can i get more energy and less caughing, thanks
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Sarcoidosis can be a symptom of infection of infection with spirochetes, in particular, those that cause Lyme disease. You might wish to get tested for that. You'd be better off skipping the western blot. Ask your physician to get your tests done by a lab called IGENEX.
I was diagnosed with sarcoidosis in April. My symptoms were abnormal amounts of enlarged lymph nodes in my neck,(front & back),and my lungs are enlarged. I had a dry cough, pain in my chest while breathing, tightness in my chest, coughing up blood clots, cronic headaches, general weakness. Since then, I have found out that my sinuses are enlarged also.
I had complained of my face & hip being numb & they gave me an MRI. That was fine.
If I have sarcoidosis, can I still be an organ donor? To date, the only organ affected by the sarcoid has been my lungs.
I wonder if your doctor realizes that treatment should be stopped if you develop sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis involves inflammation that produces tiny lumps of cells. These tiny lumps can grow and clump together, making many large and small groups of lumps which can affect how the organ works. It can also cause scar tissue and permanent organ damage.
In the lungs, sarcoidosis can cause trouble breathing, scar formation and in some cases, respiratory failure. And sarcoidosis is permanent.
but the coughing trouble breathing and scaring on the lungs reminded me of something I had read on Sarcoidosis so I thought you might want to look it up further and see if it might be something you would want to ask your Dr. about.
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disorder that most often affects individuals between 20 and 40 years of age. Females appear to be affected more frequently than males.
Dear Dr,
I have recently at the age of 57 yrs, been diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy after a near collapse and a subsequent angiogram which showed that the pressures in my heart were too high. I also have a past history of sarcoidosis and cardiac involvement, over 30 yrs ago, which I thought I had recently recovered from.
At the moment I am able to work full time, but get breathless and tight in the chest if I walk too fast or climb stairs. My ECG was normal.
Does anybody know, which other diseases than sarcoidosis can increase lysozyme? My serum lysozyme was low normal in last spring, but now elevated. I have a nonspecified tumor in my lung, which could be of sarcoidosis. Nobody knows. TT-images do not reveal its nature. I have an enlarged lymph nodule in the neck and slightly elevated lymhocyte percent in my blood. Could I have sarcoidosis?
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