You Have Seemingly Random Shoulder Pain
Are you experiencing random shoulder pain? If you haven’t done any exercises, hurt yourself, or lifted anything heavy then the reason behind your pain could be something other than the usual strained muscle or inflammation.
This may be a sign of lung cancer and it has been widely observed in smokers. That’s because certain types of tumors could affect the shoulder on the same side of the body as the lung that is affected.
Furthermore, this is a pretty early symptom, so don’t ignore it even if you haven’t experienced any other type of respiratory distress. Schedule an appointment with a doctor ASAP!
Your Fingernails Are Turning Blue
If your fingernails are turning blue it means you are suffering from a condition that is keeping oxygen from getting to your tissues. This is also known as cyanosis, so you should start observing your lips, skin, and nail beds in case they take a gray or blueish hue. The color might even shift to a dark purple, meaning the disease has progressed.
The colors might even appear suddenly during an acute COPD attack, in which case you need to visit a doctor as soon as possible!
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As well defined as these symptoms ARE, Lupus can STILL be incredibly difficult to diagnose. Some say impossible.
I began with THESE same symptoms about 12 yrs ago. I woke up one morning with my rt leg swollen so big I was not able to get a sock on y foot, or bend my knee. I get the classic rash, the butterfly across my forehead down my nose across my cheeks. I am exhausted all the time. I don’t sleep well, and my joints ache and get so stiff that I can’t bend them sometimes. Fibromyalgia, CFS, and I’ll get these ‘rashes’ in my eyes, like shingles. This comes in a “flare-up” that may last a day, a week or 3 weeks. These ‘flare ups’ may be months apart, or like this last one, 2 years since the previous event.
Oh yes, one more little thing, another classic symptom that is MY personal Favorite !
Raynauds Phenomenon. This is the most annoying and aggrevating of them ALL ! This is a reaction to a cold sensation. Might be a cold door handle. A cold glass or cold water. Even a puff of cold air in the face…..
you feel the cold for only an instant and the blood vessels in your hands and sometimes feet as well will collapse and close off stopping the blood flow thru your hands and fingers. Your fingers turn WHITE or BLUE where the rest of the hand turns red. Your fingers go numb, you cannot feel them, move them well, touch is gone, and the ability to use your hands stops for as long as the reaction last. 5 minutes to an hour, or longer. I’ve had it last 2 hrs and my hands and fingers ACHED like they had been smashed when they finally “thawed out” There is nothing that you can do to relieve the “frozen fingers” feeling. It’s like they are dead. They LOOK like they are DEAD….white fingers on a red hand? They tell me that everybody that has Lupus also has Raynauds. They go together. The only known treatment is to take a C-channel blocker medication, like a blood pressure med that keeps the blood vessels as open as possible. There is NO QUICK FIX….if you get an attack, you have to wait it out. I have to avoid the freezer at the stores, cold water, ice, anything thats cold to the touch. I can’t risk having an attack and be stranded for an hr or two. Hot water don;t help, neither will warm air. Sunshine don;t do much nor does a warm bed. Sometimes eating or drinking something HOT helps warm your core, and that SEEMS like it helps the blood flow to resume….
I KNOW that I have osteoarthritis almost head to toe, so I see a Rheumatologist and we did the usual test to rule out Lupus, she says Men DO NOT GET LUPUS !, but she agreed the symptoms were curious. My symptoms say YES. the Blood work says NO. Even though the ONLY thing that breaks a flare-up and calms it, is doses of prednisone The Dr believes the lab work so she says its just a series of coincidences. Other Dr’s say Lupus isn’t a well defined disease,, that it’s more of a “Syndrome” or a collection of symptoms that cannot be explained by other means. When they are all present at a similar time, it’s called “Lupus”. These physicians say that Lupus is the “catch-all” diagnosis when the symptoms are clear but the diagnosis is not. There is NO SPECIFIC test for Lupus. Just a series of test that IF they come back with certain results, then the Dr will label it as Lupus because they have ruled everything else out. Even now with my specialist (rheumatologist) stating that I DO NOT have Lupus, other physicians will say that I DO.
Where do you go from there?
Me, I just go about my business and when/if I wake up and cannot bend my legs of stuff my foot in a shoe, I deal with it and wait it out. What they want to CALL IT doesn;t matter so much to me, it’s more a matter of having a weapon to fight this, and I DO, so I accept that I HAVE SOMETHING… To me its like having blond hair. I have THAT TOO !
To all of you that MIGHT be burdened with this disease, see the arthritis Dr and get a trial script for some steroid to TRY so you can see if your immune system will respond to it. Thats all that LUPUS amounts to….a period where your auto-immune system goes crazy and does bad things for no good reason. It’ll do it for a day or a week then it just quits and you go back to being normal again. Like that misfire in your car engine that will NEVER do it when there is a mechanic there listening for it……Same thing.
Good Luck to you all ! ! !