my wife has lupus and is in extreme pain. she stopped one med because it was causing eye damage and she cant take the other one the doctor recommended because it causes osteoperosis (she is borderline already). we are becoming desperate, so i remembered i had an old prescription of Naproxen. she took a 500 mg and it really helped her - for most of the day. is this something we should ask the doctor to prescribe? she has been to numerous doctors numerous time since being diagnosed one year ago, and none of them have mentioned Naproxen.
Sir the pain in lupus may be due to involvement of joint in the form of arthritis and muscle causing myalgic.Also, there may be associated fibromyalgia as well. For treatment of the same Naproxen may be given for few days to decrease inflammation and hence relief in pain, but it would never cure the root cause of the disease which depends on some immunological markers. Some general measures like use of hot moist towel, sauna bath, hot shower, regular yoga exercises with mediation would be of great help in long term improvement of pain