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Hi Colleen, thank you for your interest, I am currently waiting on some blood work. The rheumatologist says I have to get blood work done every three months to see if everything is stable or if I developed some specific antibodies that will change my diagnosis into a more defined one. It looks like, their goal for now is to make me live a better life, free of pain or at least with as less pain as possible. So far, after one month of Prednisone and then 4 months of plaquenil, they were able to do that. With this new flare, I was thrown out "balance" both mentally and physically so I am planning to go see the doctor again, not sure if they will change my treatment. Since I have written my post here, my symptoms have improved on their on, after taking some prednisolone and some advil, but they still come back here and there. I hope my experience helps others with UCTD, since I have noticed that there is very few information online.