en bloch
Thanks for your reply earlier. I have been away from the site a little bit.
I still have to make the trip down to the ENT doctor to receive the actual report on my lip biopsy. I do not know, probably not Sjoegrens.

en bloch, I have been complaining to all my specialists for 1 year regarding chest pressure. I feel tightness and pain/pressure in upper part of chest, both front and back. The Ct of Chest done in July, did not show anything else than stable small nodule, that has been there since 11/2012. The blood test for sarcoidosis was negative. I had a chest X Ray with a SNIFF test done, it was negative. I had a Pulmonary Function Test done in December, it showed small airway obstruction. I feel such agony tightness, chest heavy ness, with shortness of breath. I saw my local pulmonologist yesterday, she put me on Albuteral puffers as needed, and repeat Ct on chest in 6 months.
The puffers does nothing.
Cardiologist put me on Norvasc 2.5 mg daily, not for hypertension, but as a antispasm action on blood vessels.
I wonder: Should I not have some sort of specialiced CT or MRI ? to check more??

Well, my dry mouth problems is possibly due to all the meds I am taking, the anticholinergic ones, Amitripthyline and Enablex. And I guess, the Lyrica can possible cause some too, I have to check.

but I ended up with so dry eyes and blurred vision, I have now cut back on the Enablex to every other day, and I have further cut back on the Amitripthyline ( they wanted me on 50 mg!!!, I hav cut it back to 30, then 20, and now to 10 mg. I know it is probably the best med for my neuropathy.
I am booking apt with my opthomologist because I have also had light flashes. and I had a previous cerebral aneurysm just behind the left optic nerve. And that is the eye having light flashes. and often stabbing ice pick type head aches.
The neuropathy is terrific!!