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Both scleroderma and Lupus can be tricky to diagnose in milder forms. Many of us went through an "undifferentiated connective tissue disease" diagnosis phase. Any treatment would be for your exisiting symptoms (antacids for reflux, vasodilators for Raynaud’s, anti-inflammatories for pain, etc.) The test that finally kicked me up to a scleroderma diagnosis from UCTD was a skin biopsy of a finger – if your rheumy doesn’t mention it on the 22nd maybe you’d want to. It sounds like you’re in good hands, though, you just don’t have enough wrong with you yet to tell! This is a good thing in many ways, believe me, although I know it’s terrible at the time to be in that "limbo." Stay positive and work with your docs. "CLS" <ctantiq…@aol.comoldstuff> wrote in message
news:20010513204740.06878.00001247@ng-bg1.aol.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Is there a med given for this or do they take the symptoms one by one and > decide? > I saw a Rheumy at John Hopkins a couple weeks ago and I called the office for > my labs she said the labs were negative except for a low wbc but that is was > not low enought to treat and that the ANA ands tuff were "unhelpful". I see her > again on the 22nd so I did not call back for an explaination. the diagnosis she > put on the treatment plan that went to my pcp was Raynauds(which I knew becasue > she told me that right away and UCTD. She was leaning more toward Lupus then > scleroderma in the office my pcp was leaning more toward scleroderma. She also > mentioned that some of the skin stuff I have could be cutaneous vasculitis but > she was not sure as there were not many of these small sore areas. She looked > at the skin and did not see anything she though looked like slceroderma from > the skin standpoiint. She did act as though if the labs ccame back negative > then there would be nothing to do so yet she put uctd on my treatment plan > after she got my labs even though she told me they were negative. Anyway just > wonderin gif amyone knows if they give meds for uctd and what they are? > ‘ > ‘ > ‘ > ctantiques
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Is there a med given for this or do they take the symptoms one by one and decide? I saw a Rheumy at John Hopkins a couple weeks ago and I called the office for my labs she said the labs were negative except for a low wbc but that is was not low enought to treat and that the ANA ands tuff were "unhelpful". I see her again on the 22nd so I did not call back for an explaination. the diagnosis she put on the treatment plan that went to my pcp was Raynauds(which I knew becasue she told me that right away and UCTD. She was leaning more toward Lupus then scleroderma in the office my pcp was leaning more toward scleroderma. She also mentioned that some of the skin stuff I have could be cutaneous vasculitis but she was not sure as there were not many of these small sore areas. She looked at the skin and did not see anything she though looked like slceroderma from the skin standpoiint. She did act as though if the labs ccame back negative then there would be nothing to do so yet she put uctd on my treatment plan after she got my labs even though she told me they were negative. Anyway just wonderin gif amyone knows if they give meds for uctd and what they are? ‘ ‘ ‘ ctantiques
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