Rheumatoid Arthritis Support Group
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory, multisystem, autoimmune disorder. It is a disabling and painful condition which can lead to substantial loss of mobility due to pain and joint destruction. The disease is also systemic in that it often also affects many extra-articular tissues throughout the body including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and...
Friday at lunch, I began throwing up, finally stopping about 5 p.m. the smallest amount of Gatorade or water would bring it back within mi urges. Ugh. I can never remember being this ill ever. I realized that the mtx suppressing my immune system must be the culprit. My esophogus and ribs still hurt, and I ache all over. My hands feel very RA-ish, as does my sacro-iliac.
I've been rehydrating since about midnight. Taking ibuprophen for muscleaches and headache.
Pretty sure this is a virus, so, in addition to my whinage, I do have a question---can I take my mtx on Tuesday? When I've had bacterial infections, I have stopped taking it, but so far (knock wood) I do not have abacterial infection.
Thanks for listening.
I've been rehydrating since about midnight. Taking ibuprophen for muscleaches and headache.
Pretty sure this is a virus, so, in addition to my whinage, I do have a question---can I take my mtx on Tuesday? When I've had bacterial infections, I have stopped taking it, but so far (knock wood) I do not have abacterial infection.
Thanks for listening.
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
I hope you feel better soon.
Oh, it sure sounds like food poisoning.
A tip on prolonged episodes of vomitting (from someone who did it through two ENTIRE pregnancies...and no, I am never doing that again) use something stretchy, like knit pj pants (what I used) and wrap it around your rib area and hold it tight while vomitting, or dry heaves. It greatly helps the pain in the ribs from this (hopefully) unusual muscle use. I kept the pj pants by the toilet, and when I had to run, after the first vomitting, I would wrap the pj's around my ribs lightly, and then the next 4-5 heaves would hold it tight with each one. Hopefully no one will need to do this, but it does work.