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Originally Posted by en bloc
Have you considered a short course of steroids...to see if your neuropathy and other symptoms are largely inflammatory based? If not, then it would be a wise choice...not a long course, just a taper pack. If your SFN is more inflammatory based, then you might feel much better (immediately). It's worth a try, just to determine (and learn) the amount of inflammation you are dealing with. Labs may/may not help tell you about your level of inflammation, but they are not very accurate.
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My blood shows minimal inflammation which is frustrating. My eye problem is iritis, inflammation of eye due to autoimmune attack. My joints are inflammatory reactions too. I tried corticosteroid shot and one week if prednisone which didn't help the neuropathy.
I do feel that my neuropathy is much worse since stopping the enbrel, not that I had improvements on that.
En bloc, do you know from your latest rheum visit whether a biologic may be used in conjunction with IVIG?