Sjogren’s Syndrome – Introduce yourself and meet others

A friend of mine has parkinson, I told him some day the cure for this will be thinking a certain way, carrying out some kind of activity and this will cure the desease. We fully don't understand the power of the brain, so we adapt to the condition by using something. Are we better off today then we were 1000 years ago.
Throughout my life I didn't have the higher level of thinking to help with problems, so, they went away and I got better. Imagine had my parents known just how severe my mental state was as a child.
Over the last ten years I have met people with mental disability at my age in the 40s and still the same as they were as a child. When I sit down with the group to share my life. they are sit back, one guy very upset and walks out only to turn around tp say "you are your own best doctor." These people didn't need medication, they needed exposure to the environment outside to experience life as a child with scaped knees, a sting by an ant, climbing trees, playing in the rain, doing things a kid gets to do before they realize how it looks from another persons view.
When people turn to alternative preventions or aids to help them cope with life, they are failing to make the brain work in ways unknown to docotrs, psychologist and others in the professional field.
I often wonder what illnesses are in other countires where there isn't a Walgreens to go fill a presciption to treat a condition. Are people asctually so lost that even after hearing the side effects associated with taking the pill, all they can think is my condtion will go away. How can a person take on side effects so severe life maybe at risk only to get rid of one condtion to be faced with another one.
Please don't take this the wrong way. Due to a work injury I have a very bad shoulder which is very painful, very painful when putting pressure on it. While my wife and were making love, it was hurting severelly, I almost stopped, until I focused completely on what we were doing. The pain went away.
With my migraines triggered by my work, I pour 100% of my focus into my work applying all off my five senses to fully concentrate on my activity. I haven't had a severe attack in 8 years, then I had to go into a dark room, very quite and relax until my my medcation started to work.
Lets look at my dog who I will have to give away. Do you know what happens if I give her a bath everyday. You should look it up. Its not good for the dog and I didn''t have to look it up to see what happens when she goes without a bath for a week.
Where we live other people fail to care for there dogs. when I take her for a walk she comes back in scratching, I wash her and fleas just come pouring off of her. So, I will have to find her a home.
I do not take or use anything, /I have chosen to study my problem and allow my five senses and creative skill to work as they did when I was a child, its much like not having a mind. Like that of a one year old.
Do you know how destructive the mind is to people living with problems? People at birth and the first couple of years had more conflicts, challenges and problems then any adult. The mind screws it up by taking over the five senses, the mind(thinking) steps in to create it own values and principles on the things the five senses are experiencing.
Had I a mind growing up I wouldn't be sitting here sharing with you things I have learn over the last 50 years. Let me share with you something on the brain, the brain doesn't know right from wrong, up from down or hot from cold, it hasn't changed since day one, birth.
It gives you what you think about he most. A few months back I tried something to see what would happen. I work on farms in the middle of the night running tractors, I watched the movie Jeepers Creepers, then I went to work, I did this everyday. While at work in the middle of the field with corn fields around me and a full moon in the sky, I would turn off all my lights get outside my tractor to wait for him to come. I next started to look around to see what thigns would look like him. Usning my imagination I put a lot of effort to seeing things to scre me into believing something is there.
After a three weeks of doing this, it became boring, I got back to focusing on work. Only my brain wasn't done, it continued to make look at something by sending me an impluse to look at things that didn't look right.
Learn how to use the mind in the right way and the impluses coming from the brain will feed the mind with good things. Now I have to undo this which has become a problem. Which it is almost gone.
You know the reason a diet(do I eat today) never works? I just shared with you the answer. When a person consumes there mental activity with what and how and where and the thinking is related to food. The brain is going to continue to send impluses trying to help the mind eat better.
I don't know about you? But, when I'm hungry and somebody starts talking about food or I get an impluse about food and sometimes I smell something which isn't there. I have to eat. The problem is the brain needs to relax and to do this the mind has to relax. People need to make something the "Hghlight" of the day. Do you sit at work going through the morning thinking about what you are going to have for lunch or do you brain a lunch and still look forward to kunch time. Either way you have made it a point to the brain that food is the "highlight" in your life.
The power of the brain lies within the ability to not think.

Ah, the perverbal secret, not thinking. The mastering of the mind...not to think,to turn it off/turn it on. But that takes thinking in and of it self! Because we are human.
It is all so connected and disjointed at the same time. Physical injury does affect the body and "it" remembers...albet, the mind, as all is one. Toss the aging process in there and...well like I said we are human.
Is one any different than the other? No, I don't believe so...
Perhaps looking and finding the the beauty in our everyday abundance. sincere simplicity...zen-ish...quantam physics... pick your favorite, or your poision, it is all a choice, concious or uncouncious...the mind doesn't ever stop "functioning".
So it may help if the mind is used to project for the day...by helping someone else, caring for the dog...making that concious effort. Thinking and carrying out, exploring a subject completely new....Rejoicing in simple abundance, it channels the mind and helps in all aspects. It all helps to bring us to the same destination. Good Luck.

Three things have to take place in order for this kind of mental activity to work, when doing anything or involved in anything by yourself or with somebody else, 1. you have to keep an open mind to allow the five senses to take in information, 2. you have to be patient to allow for something to develope, 3. Now you can think.
With over 36 years of work experience with over 40 businesses in four states and working in a think tank, I can freely say, "it is very difficult for a person to hold back from thinking first and everything else comes last." Another problem is people have to assume things without having all the information needed to make a decision or be creative.
When you were born there was no mind to help you think. If, you had a mind you would have made decisions in ways which would have slowed down your learning ability.
Autism I believe is the result of when the mind begins to take over the open minded or no thinking and confusion developes from it. There isn't a smooth transition, for a child to think on a too high of a level can create brain failure much the same way the brain saves us from experienceing severe pain.
When I watched my grandchildren grow up, they proved my theory to be correct. Let five senses work first, take in all informaion, be patient,let it come, then think or act on it.
when I was 41 there needed to be a change in my life. There wasn't an ability to feel or have feeling for anybody or anything which was a conditon /i was born with and a near drowing made it worse.
What helped me to find my feeling which has puzzled psychologists in different fields of practice was "how did you get feeling and emotions to start working?" There were many things I did, two things !.the open minded part 1., 2. and 3. combined with helping anybody in need of attention, service or care.
Before getting feeling emotion I had to study what just happened and then I would responde in a way according to what just happened. The problem with this is my wife, children and people felt I didn't care. I cared, there just wasn't the ability to back it up with a feeling or emotion. I know the importance of money, yet, I have no emotional connection to it.
So, psychologists can't explain how a part of the brain which has never worked is now working. 1.open mind-free from thinking, 2. be patient allow time to pass for everything to fall into place, 3. think about it with positive thoughts. A person can't go through a day walkng around like a Zombie or a Buddist Monk. That is failure for people like me, failure is doing nothing. I'm 50 and feel like a teenager because I find everything fasinationg, even conflicts, challenges and problems I welcome, yes even negative minded people who can only assume all things are the way they see it.
Life is fun when looked at through the eyes of a child. To defy age means to not live a life of repetitive activities. The Best to you.

Should I start taking plaquenil that has been prescribed by my doctor for inflamation caused by sjrogens syndrome I am very nervous of all the side effects of this medication especially possible loss of vision.
Is there anybody out there that has taken or is now on this med?

I am currently on this. The benefits outweigh the complications for me. Its one of the milder options. I was having severe inflammation, Daily hives & having to administer epi pens for anaphylactic shock with Sjrogens & SLE

Doed anyone here with Sjrogens also have a prolactinoma or high prolactin levels. Since May i have had a domino effect of being diagnosed with PCOS, fuctioning prolactinoma, hypothyroidism, then startef having hives all over daily, 2 session of anaphylactic shock. (Epi pen necessary) idiopathic. Once woke up throat closed off. Unable to breathe cough..anything. 2nd tongue swollen over 18 hrs. Diagnosis most recently primary Sjrogens w/other organs affected and other connective tissue diseases. Most likely SLE. Thats has been my past 6 months. I cant help but think it all relates back to the hyperprolactnemia. I have read about tests in People with SS with elevated prolactin levels. I was wondering if anyone else has pituitary disorder or anything similar. Thabk you in advance

Some people just have dry eyes and mouth. You may not have it w/other organ involvement. I am gluten free and it is debilitating for me. My entire life changed. I went from working full time to such fatigue i didnt want to move along with anaphylaxsis

@peach414144 I have was just thinking of you and wondering how you are glad your still here good to hear from you It's to bad this is how we do. I have sjorans also but am thankful I just have dry eyes and mouth .I use Biotene it helps me .I do have M.D. and glucoma my eyes water for no reason.I put drops in 4-5 times a day After reading how bad it can get I feel blessed its just my eyes and mouth Bless us all.

Hello @kimber3429, Welcome to the group. Thank you for posting and sharing your experiences. How scary to wake with your throat closed off! Do you have access to a physician that specializes with Sjogrens?

While waiting for other members of the group to reply, please see the link below. You may find this thread of members talking about Prolactinoma helpful-
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/prolactinoma-then-some/

So far not yet. I have just recently found out about it. My case is being reviewed by a Harvard Dr. That specializes in SS. Just to confirm my Diagnosis. It showed up in my bloodwork. I thought it was more Lupus. But my SS is primary. I had to be off work for a few months. The fatigue severly deteriorated my quality of look life. I have really severe brain fog to the point i can hardly create sentences, talk or comprhend anything. Which i do technical support over the phone for a living. Which ive been at my job 6 years. It has me questioning if i can even continue work with the amount of mistakes ive been making. Its been devestating. I am on Plaquenil now and prednisone. Which really helped the first fee months. Im ferling the effects of brain fog really bad again along with severe aches and pains. After having a non stop flare up for 6 months i thought i was starting to make progress but now i feel like one step forward, 2 steps back. The medication they gave me for the prolactinoma was toxic to my body. So my options are now limited there. I do see a rheumatologist, which i am not sure what he specializes in. This will be my 3rd visiit coming up. My eyes were swelling shut everyday for months and i couldnt get any Drs to listen. Its been a frustrating experience