I would like to chime in here too....
The symptom of bleeding gums should be reported to your doctor, because low platelets will also cause it.
Many many drugs can cause low platelets in the blood, including
genetic errors you may have inherited.
All warnings to patients, who take certain drugs (even Calan for blood pressure!), may develop bleeding gums. It is a serious side effect and should be reported to the doctor.
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombocytopenia
I know a young woman with NO medication or lupus history who just started to hemorrhage in the dentist's chair suddenly... she had ITP and was hosptialized!
So please discuss this with your doctor and have some blood work done to verify your platelets are okay. They can tend to go down in lupus patients, anyway... It might not be just the new Cellcept.
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