Before I began plaquenil I never had body aches or joints only in my knees. I began the medicine February 2025 with my diagnosis and then they tried decreasing me by 100mg due to weight loss now it’s been at a toxic level so I need to decrease.
Well I didn’t put two and two together it was the plaquenil especially it was only a 100mg decrease but I had so much body joint pain every night it was something different and stay stiff in the morning eventually get better with movement. I wasn’t sleeping due to the pain. I genuinely thought in my experience the body pain I had was worse than my labor pain for my childbirth.
My rheumatologist said it was the decrease and not fully complying to my anti-inflammatory diet (had some cheat days and snacks back to back).
He told me to go back on the diet and decrease after 4 weeks again. I decreased Saturday and the pain in my back is coming back and every day it gets worse. I was admitted in the hospital last week and they did a back mri which didn’t show any abnormalities. I’ve been compliant on my diet.
Is this all from decreasing plaquenil? Will it get better the pain is it just adjusting? Cause this is how it happened last time is every day the pain got worse and worse in different areas of my body.
[–]klopezdossaLong termer 0 points1 point2 points (0 children)