honestly, i don’t think i can do the next doses. my UC symptoms aren’t bad enough for this kind of agony.
]]>I am back on injectible methotrexate 15 mg/week and doing well, the bod is quiet for now. I am going to speak w/ my rheumy next visit about lowering the dose on the MTX w/ the hopes to get off it. I also have necrotising scleritis in both eyes and they are quiet now too & the ophthalmologist is a happy camper & thinks this is a good time to try to lower the dose or maybe get off it.
I had foot surgery the end of August and the surgeon never called the rheumy like she said she would to discuss my meds, so I assumed it was OK to stay on all my meds and I did. (It wasn’t, of course, but I assumed she called and secured the rheumy’s blessings.) Anyhow, I rapidly developed CRPS (RSD) in the foot after the surgery and I have been through months of agony with that. Trust me, it is horribly painful, makes RA a piece of cake, and you can’t even tolerate air on your skin. Has anyone else had surgery or serious injury to a hand/foot/wrist/ankle while on their meds and had this problem? I went to PT & pain management and refused pain killers or the nerve blocks she offered, so I am just dealing with it myself as I am really doctor shy now. Of course the foot surgeon says the meds had nothing to do with the CRPS, but she could be lying to cover her mistake as the rheumy would have said no to the surgery until I stopped the drugs and of course the drug companies are not going to admit their drugs caused any problems. It may have nothing to do with the drugs I was on when I had the surgery, I will probably never know.
Happy new year to everyone, maybe this will be the year they find a cure for one of these horrible diseases?
]]>Definitely get the medicine to at least room temperature, greatly eliminates the pain from injection. My biggest issue was after the injection I would have swelling, redness and a noticeable heat at and around the injection site. My dermatologist recommended taking a anti-histamine an hour before injecting and another immediately following. This has greatly reduced the swelling and irritation following my injections. I hope this helps others.
]]>I left the pen out of the frige for 45 min for my third shot. I put a folded towel in my teeth… pinched my right side of my lower abdomen hard… pr.essed the pen down hard.. expecting the pain… gritted my teeth… pressed the purple button with the music on loud… and then….no pain at all. I looked at the pen after fifteen seconds and to my amazement I saw the yellow marker.
Prayer works