ss_blog_claim=295a64cb801d42ccc33657ab449f753a

No Humira For Me

Posted by Connie on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 10:22 am and is filed under Chronic Illness, Health Information, Healthy or Not.
There are/is currently 2 comments |

Since I had a stomach virus last week and now some kind of illness with a headache, fatigue, sore throat and coughing, my Rheumatologist would not allow me to have my Humira shot. When you feel this sick, not getting pain relief for Rheumatoid Arthritis is not in any way, shape or form, fun.

This means that on top of feeling sick, I am also starting to feel the joint pain in my hips, fingers, ankles and wrists. That’s where I get the RA pain the most. I went from sleeping constantly just a few days ago to having trouble sleeping because of the pain. Since I’m so used to getting Humira, it is difficult to readjust to hurting again.

I’m going for blood work and a chest x-ray today so my Primary doctor can check on how I’m doing. I’m on an antibiotic because of being on immunosuppressants so I hope to be better soon.

I’ll be using my pain relief techniques that I wrote about before because I’m really feeling badly now. I know it will pass soon though.

by Connie Chronic Illness,Health Information,Healthy or Not

2 comments

  1. i didn’t know you have ra! i have it and am taking enbrel, but i’m just getting over a kidney infection so i haven’t been able to take my shot for 2 weeks. my knees are really going to love me when i finally inject myself today!

    cady’s last blog post..Weight Watchers: Week 1

    comment by cady — October 24, 2008 @ 12:59 pm

  2. My mom had been suffering from RA from the time she was 16. Since the 80 she had been on methotrexate. That stuff was harsh on her, but she was able to move around. When she was going to have her knee surgery, they took her off of it for 2 months. She got to the point, she couldn’t move around.

    RA is definitely debilitating. I know alot of people think people with RA “only have arthritis”, but its alot worse then that.

    The doctors keep testing me for it since I already have one autoimmune disease. Apparently it can be genetic to get autoimmune diseases. The kids who end up with them, don’t always get the same ones though. So you might want to keep an eye out on them. Plus let the kids physicians know that you have an autoimmune disease.

    Wakela Runen’s last blog post..can’t take them anywhere

    comment by Wakela Runen — October 26, 2008 @ 10:05 am

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, comments are closed right now!

« | »