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Please help.have lupus.get moments i zoned out, feel spacy, disconnected, easily confused, sometimes blackout.neg mri w no contrast.upping prednis stop sx?

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Need further workup : CSF evaluation perhaps blood for neurological antibobodies before upping doses.

Answered 6/10/2014

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