DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE ! You stick with it. Make a log for daily use and note when you take the meds and start noting the reactions even if you are not sure. Trust yourself and tell yourself you doing BETTER, OK, or NOT BETTER.

We have a right to expect to be better, so Let's.

Sorry to sound so blunt.

Peace and Patience to you

Bluedogs2

I feel like I could have written that!

I feel better two days after my enbrel shot but never pain free.
I too don't know what to expect. Humira did nothing I'm on my 16th week of enbrel and I feel the same "am i waiting for a miracle and to be pain free?"

How many weeks are you on?

Xo MLC.

I am 6 weeks. I just heard that it works really fast I know we r all different but I don't know I guess I will have to wait and see wat the doc says at my next visit. I feel better but my large joints are still behaving badly. And my hands were a lot better untill the past 2 days. I guess that could be weather related. I guess I can't expect remission nothing has ever given me that but idk.

Well, I think these biologics are a bit oversold. Please, don't get me wrong, I cannot do without them. I am greatly improved, enough to function, more or less.
I was told when I started Enbrel that I would be hiking in six months. This was almost two years ago. I will not be able to ever hike again, I can see my joints continue deforming. I am much better than I was two years ago, but I am disappointed because my hopes where so high.

I was on Enbrel for about five weeks before I noticed improvement. NOTHING before that. Nada, Zilch.

It seems to me that sometimes those of us with severe RA lump ourselves in with everyone else. I try to remind myself that the drugs probably won't work as well on me as it might on someone with milder RA.

For me, Enbrel meant 2-3 hours of morning stiffness, instead of 5+. It meant getting to go to the grocery store and not having to put my feet up for two hours when I got home. I can plan little things that I can do the next day, instead of planning to do nothing. It means most days I can spend a bit of time on my feet and not end up paying for it for the next two days. It means, just maybe, with a prednisone burst, I can go on a vacation this year and not have to spend most of my time in a wheelchair.

Do I hope for more? Heck yeah!! I want a miracle too. But looking at where I am now and where I was two years ago... I'll take it!