Scleroderma : what are the treatment options ? Posted: 12-11-07 07:18am
sir , i fed up , i want to regain my youth
and my energy , i kept ten years taking
different medicines
i want to know if there is a hope to
continue my life as i used to be , all i
want is to run and to dance like all
people but when i began to do the least
effort , my breath get upwards and
downwards and then i cannot breath at all
and i have a pain in the center of my
chest , feeling that iam older than my
grandmother , make me very depressed and
very sad
please help me if you have any new
treatment or if you a way to have an
adoptation in this case
"Current medical status: scleroderma
infected by skin of my lung and my hands
is bended and two smaller fingers are
totally bended and infected by gastersole
system and my stomach
Current medical treatment: prednesone 5 ml
two tablet per day and i reject to take
all the immune medicine from along time"
Unfortunately scleroderma is a chronic,
progressive disease that affects almost
all organs in the body. Its etiology is
unknown and that’s why there is no
efficient therapy to treat the skin
condition. Doctors can only prescribe
anti-inflammatory drugs to help calm the
inflammation. If you start taking the
other immuno-modulating medicines in
addition to prednisone, you may succeed in
slowing the progression of the disease.
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