Nausea?

[Purpletop]

Anyone suffering from bouts of nausea with SLE? The past two days I've been dizzy and short of breath but now I'm nauseous to top it up. I haven't changed medication, or dosage and am still following antiinflammatory diet.

[Sher78]

I suffer terribly with nausea and in my case it's not attributed 2 any changes either so u're not alone

[browneyes2012]

I have been given betaserc for dizziness / vertigo and feel much better! No ringing in my ears now. (Not diagnosed yet!) ANA and ENA positive - just waiting for C3/C4 and lupus anticoagulant and few other tests.

He hasn't 'labelled' me yet but is treating me for SLE weirdly... Thankfully.

[heatherx]

I'd go for a check up with gp as it probably is just another lupus illness but it could also be something to do with your heart, most people think you have to have pain but you don't, nausea, breathlessness and dizziness combined can all by symptoms especially in a woman. Its probably not so don't worry but definately worth getting it checked out x x

[Purpletop in reply to heatherx]

My gp will probably roll his eyes at seeing me again! Heart and Lung tests are all ok, still to determine the cause for the shortness of breath and dizziness, a battery of other tests in the pipeline. Nausea was a new symptom for me, I don't have it today, this lupus is so weird.

[heatherx]

After being admitted straight from the gp into a@e a couple of months back with the same symptoms just a fast heart rate also it was just a thought. My heart tests came back okayish also and cardiologist said its probably inflammation around my heart/chest so always worth getting checked out and there still keeping an eye on my heart x x

[Purpletop in reply to heatherx]

I know, you're right, I can't tell you how many times I ended up in a&e because of these symptoms, they are the scariest!

[heatherx]

All the symptoms just seem to come and go at various times, I've had inflammation on my brain, heart all over my body, foot drop on my left side, nerve damage on my right side and have had a really rough 2 years but this past month everything seems to have settled down and I actually feel well other than the normal joint/muscle aches and pains. So fingers crossed your just on another flare and things will settle down soon and you get to have a good xmas x x

[Purpletop in reply to heatherx]

Lets hope so. May I ask what medication you are on? I'm on plaquenil and tapering down on steroids, today I'm going down to 2.5mg (and hoping I'll be ok).

[heatherx]

I take meloxican, leflunomide, 10mg rampril, indapamide, 30/500 co-codamol plus I have regular kenalog injections and oral sprays and lacrilube for the eyes for my sjogrens! I was on plaquenil with methotrexate but the methotrexate were affecting me internally so had to stop so they swapped me to leflunomide but they can't be taken with plaquenil so had to stop them also. If I'm honest I don't feel any of them help that much as the flares seem to come and go regardless of their own accord x x

[brave]

purple top,i have nausea a lot of late ,and dizziness is always a prob for me ,sometimes the balance issues can cause the nausea?i find ginger great ,fresh in dinner or crystalize ginger (great if you have sweet tooth )nausea causes me to gasp for air ,i think its the stomache full of gas and yukky stuff?i would go to doc if its a new thing?Just one pointer for you...i to am trying anti-imflamatory diets ,i had to stop taking fish oil for a while as i was getting nausea and headaches ,quite common when taking fish oils,hope this helps,brave

[Purpletop in reply to brave]

I'm not taking fish oil at the moment either, I found I'm taking too many pills, my poor stomach will soon have enough if I'm not careful. But I will watch for this when I'm picking it up again, in case. I'm going to mention it to the rheumatologist, to be sure. Interesting about ginger, didn't know that helped with nausea, I will definitely try, many thanks.