Immune Disorders Forum - Scleroderma : what are the treatment options ?

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Q: Scleroderma : what are the treatment options ?

asked by: DoctorQuestion on December 11th, 2007

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

thanks in advance

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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD

replied on December 14th, 2007

Immune Disorders Answer A3464

You wrote:

"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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