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William R. Thompson

2005-05-04, 9:03 am

Styner wrote:

> I have SLE and have had many flare ups that began with low temps - as low
> as 95.6 for me. Doctors never really paid that much attention to it...but
> I always knew that it had to be one more item on the list of signs that my
> body was screaming for some kind of attention. Prednisone will lower
> temps, but it never really got them up any of the times mine was low. It
> shouldn't last, though. Not more that a couple of months, if I remember
> correctly.


Thanks! I've felt like the only person in the world who's
had his temperature drop. I think mine went below
95.0 F/35.0 C once, but at the time I wasn't in any shape
to pay close attention. Whenever I mentioned it to doctors,
it got shrugged off.

One doctor had me on prednisone for a few weeks, and it
helped somewhat. Unfortunately the doctor didn't see a reason
to pursue that (he was a combination of MD and psychiatrist,
and I was seeing him as a therapist).

--Bill Thompson
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