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Sounds pretty good Michele. A NEW YEAR for you and a brand new BEGINNING.
Enjoy sweetie! 
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I need to stop at the pharmacy and pick up some refills tonight, what do I look for in a magnesium supplement and how much do I take a day?
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I'm not Linz...
#236029 - 01/05/06 02:00 PM
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but my fibro meds have 300 mg of magnesium and 1200 mg of malic acid per day. Try and find something with both in them, as the malic acid is also helpful. Balance with calcium, if you need to, as I ended up with D from the magnesium in my fibro pills when I first started taking them!
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Friendship is thicker than blood. ~Rent
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I take Country Life's Malic Relief formula ....it's designed with Fibro-type problems in mind and is GREAT! 
Take it easy with the exercise...overdoing it could land you with a Fibro flare. Maybe stick to swimming (& aquacize?) and yoga. And a dog walk everyday will def. help.
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Plaquenil
#236037 - 01/05/06 02:17 PM
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Linz
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Here is Medicinenet's page on Plaquenil. It doesn't sound too bad...the main side effect in the eye can apparently be detected before it becomes a problem if you have regular checks...and that shouldn't be a problem for you, should it? 
I've asked on BYDLS about it and will let you know when there are replies.
If you've registered on there, start by posting (click on "new topic" to get a new thread) in the New Members - Say Hello forum.
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Michele, you are really blessed to have such a wonderful doctor. That is great that she has such compassion and is willing to spend so much time with you. I know you are anxious to see the high risk ob/gyn too. I hope you get some answers soon.
I just wanted to say that I am so proud of you for the strength and courage you have to take it one day at a time. I know you are still hurting, but you seem to be doing so well. Give Harley big hugs for me! He's a doll!
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Michele,
You sound really upbeat dispite all the crazy things going on. I feel relieved for you that at least you have the best help out there. Do not give up, your life means so much to so many of us here.
Love Shannon
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Re: Plaquenil
#236136 - 01/06/06 01:54 AM
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Linz
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Here are some threads on Plaquenil from BYDLS...
Old thread
New thread
Old thread
Hope that helps some.
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I'll have to look for some more supplements than. I checked my prenatals that I'm still taking and they only have 30mg of magnesium! I tend to be C anyways so I doubt the extra mad will give me D! 
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Re: Plaquenil
#236346 - 01/06/06 01:59 PM
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Wow, thanks Linz!! That did help! I have always been awful in the sun, I burn terribly if I'm not super careful and I never knew why as I'm not that fare! I didn't realize that the sun sensativity was related to all this other crap!
I haven't had a chance to talk with the eye dr I work for as we have been busy today. He is just an optometrist and not an opthlamologist but he can probably at least be able to tell if something started to go wonky.
I sat down to register before I left work yesterday, than I got busy and had my appt with my shrink so had to leave. I've been swamped at work today but I did read the links you posted for me and I'm going to register on Monday! Thanks so much for all your help with this!!!! Gotta run, boss is coming!!!
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