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1 month 2 weeks ago #73766 by MelA
2025 was created by MelA
Wishing everyone a very happy and healthy New Year !!

"Instead of wasting your time worrying about symptoms, just get it checked out" -Nieca Goldberg, MD
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1 month 2 weeks ago #73767 by CindyL
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Same to you, Mel!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas or Holiday and has a safe, healthy and Happy New Year!
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1 month 2 days ago #73771 by MelA
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Thank you Cindy - always good to hear from you!!

And Margaret - how are you doing??

"Instead of wasting your time worrying about symptoms, just get it checked out" -Nieca Goldberg, MD
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1 month 16 hours ago #73773 by Margaret
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Going ok thanks, Mel - how about you? Mycophenolate is working for me. I seem to have very low energy but that may be a side effect of getting old 😂.
Hope 2025 will be a good year for you, and everyone here

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1 month 13 hours ago #73774 by MelA
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Margaret I'm glad you found a treatment that works for you and that you are doing well!   Could the mycophenolate make you tired?   Although I'm with you on it being a side effect of getting oldB)

I recently got my 1st Shingrix injection (after 3 bouts of shingles, last one was in May & the one before that had been 20 years ago) and I slept the rest of that day and the next day.

Take care now and do check in every now and then so we know how you are doing!
(Your cat is beautiful!)



 

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1 month 10 hours ago #73775 by Margaret
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I thought I'd replied but it disappeared.
I took mycophenolate for over a year, but noticed low energy only when I was on a high dose, twice what I'm taking now. It's probably beause of low iron, a new development for me, but easily treated.
I agree about the Shingrix, it knocked me around too. But better than shingles!
Your cat is lovely too - well, all cats are lovely 😺

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3 weeks 3 days ago - 3 weeks 3 days ago #73776 by MelA
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Low iron can't be fun Margaret but at least can do something about it.   Can't recall if you had low D also - I did, can't say I have more energy now that I have that under control though.

I was diagnosed in 1989 and when the shingles vaccine 1st came out it was a live virus so couldn't have it - never gave it a 2nd thought even after my 2nd bout as I didn't know there was a new vaccine that wasn't a live virus.  After the 3rd bout I asked about it and found the new one wasn't live - and what they say about each bout being worse than the one before is absolutely correct!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   So you were smart to get vaccinated!!  And now, me too B)

Thank you - our Killian Cat, The Queen of Everything (vets called her that too), was such a wonderful cat!!   She ended up with bad kidneys, was blind in her right eye (didn't know that until she was 3 or 4 yrs, looked normal) and about a year before she went to the Bridge she developed megacolon.    We gave her sub-Q fluids for her kidneys and she was so darn good about it, we didn't do anything for us just for what she needed for a good life and that she did have!!  

"Instead of wasting your time worrying about symptoms, just get it checked out" -Nieca Goldberg, MD

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