uncontrollable laughing on Hydroxychloroquine? - PMRGCAuk

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uncontrollable laughing on Hydroxychloroquine?

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Hydroxychloroquine: leaflet @ side effects.... Common (may affect up to 1 in 10 people) Changes in mood with uncontrollable laughing or crying!!!

They are joking...surely!!!

......especially as I have just read an expert's view that the hydro-stuff is probably a waste of time with only one Yankee medic recommending it.

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Suppose it might make you care less about how you feel ...

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I suspect I would be freaked out...but forewarned is forearmed.

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My sister with RA tried it, she didn`t find it very funny!....

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I tried it for 18 months and felt it made no difference to my PMR. If it had made me laugh that might have been a positive as not much else was making me laugh at the time!

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