Surviving LUPUS

My first post for the new year. Yeah, I haven’t been in the mood really to write what I am experiencing since I am getting a wee bit depress of my situation.

I don’t know when I started complaining about the shortness in breathing but what I remember was going to the holidays I am feeling some pain here and there. That’s the reason why we opted to buy take out food for our Christmas Eve. And then come Christmas evening after the tiring activities my shoulder blades were so painful and when I lay down my heart seems to beat a little bit faster and I have to catch up in my breathing. I have to settle myself down for a while to get back to normal breathing. From Christmas night until I guess New Year’s Eve I had that feeling. We were close to going to the Emergency room. Only I was concerned on leaving my little girl.

Despite the warning of my rheumatologist about getting pregnant, in Oct of 2005, after doing a pregnancy test at home, the kit reads two lines…POSITIVE. I was so happy but there was a bit of apprehension. The warning of my rheuma kept on ringing into my mind.

Actually his warning does not concern me having LUPUS. He is concern of the effects of COUMADIN to my unborn. COUMADIN/WARFARIN cannot be taken when you are pregnant because it will cause abnormalities to the child in your womb. He wanted me to be coumadin free for six months before even thinking of conceiving. And because of the nature of COUMADIN, I needed to switch to HEPARIN during pregnancy.