So I went to the doctor. He said the cyclosporine pills are taken twice a day. The biggest side affects for me to worry about are nausea and headaches. There are even larger side affects possible which is why you are monitored at least every month while on the drugs. It is a six month regimen. At about the four month mark you know if it will do anything at all, but many (I don't know percentages) have their hair fall out afterwards and you have it all to do over again. As for the drug, generic is about $200-300 per month. Of course that doesn't include what insurance may or may not do, which I unfortunately don't have as I currently work only part time.

So now I have a decision to make. Do I decide to try and fight this, getting on the roller coaster that this regimen will take me on? Do I accept myself the way I am no matter what happens?

I also have Turners Syndrome, which makes me susceptible to auto-immune diseases in general, so at the very least when I see my internist for my yearly check-up and get my prescriptions renewed I need to now have her make sure I don't have anything else going on. Sigh. And I thought after my rather eventful teenage years I was at a fairly stable place in my life healthwise . . .