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Hopeful
OMG! I had the flu shot in April and have been suffering with intermittently flu symptoms ever since - fatigue, headache, painful joints. Don't know whether the current (southern hemisphere) vaccine is live or dead. I talked to my GP and she told me that the northern hemisphere had a weaker form of the vaccine and there were a lot of deaths from the flu. The vaccine was apparently made stronger for the southern hemisphere as a result.
As I said, I've been having flu symptoms ever since and was put on antibiotics. They no longer work on the symptoms now. I've had pain in my hand & wrist for the past few days. Stupid me - I thought it was tendonitis. Today I have a headache, pain in my ear, in my ear cartilage, and in my mastoid so it FINALLY dawned on me that I'm having a flare! My Immunologist only works on Wednesdays (locally) so I'm going to get a call in to him and nip this in the bud. He wants me to do a drug trial (Australia is behind the U.S. in respect of drug appovals) but trials involve an awful lot of time and making one's self available at least once a week to begin with. I also prefer not to do ctx again (it was stuffed up before). My ANCA has never gone below 24 and normally hangs around 38-40. Anyone have something similar happen? Anyone out there ever get WG in their ear cartilage? Just feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment.
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