Trooper45yrs
Status: New member - joining for support and when I feel better, to support others.
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- You can catalog this under "true confessions."Well, I've noticed recently that my eyebrows and eyelashes have been thinning out, so I looked up home remedies. I saw some suggestions about putting Vaseline on them at night, so I tried it. (I've had...
- Happy New Year, everyone. Apparently, I overdid things on my vacation and now I have a cold. I was supposed to inject (Enbrel) tonight, but I honestly don't know if I should, now that I have developed this cold. The Enbrel nurse hotline is now...
- I'm flying across the country next week to visit my family. It's been over a year since I last did that, and some things have changed for me. I am now on Enbrel. Does anyone know if I can take Enbrel in my carry on luggage on Southwest? What do I...
- I was listening to a story on public radio the other day. It was about a woman with Crohn's disease, which sounds horrible. My heart really goes out to her and I would never wish that disease on anyone.But... part of the story included the audio...
- Just curious how many of you consider yourselves to be introverted. I've often wondered if there was any correlation between introversion and autoimmune disease such as RA.I am definitely an introvert by nature.
- My finger surgery is now scheduled for Sept 30th. Since I will need to be off all NSAIDs for 7-10 days prior, I was hoping there was something else I could take between now and then to knock down the pain and swelling in my hands. We tried low...
- I went to see a hand surgeon about my quickly progressing boutonniere deformity. He thinks he can help me, even if he has to fuse the joints. It looks like a pretty gory surgery (as all hand surgeries do), and they do it with a local anesthesia. ...
- I think I am depressed because I don't really feel like doing anything. But, I don't know if it is just because I feel so crappy from my RA or something else. My feet hurt way too much to walk any distance, although I am supposed to get my first...
- I saw this article in a fitness magazine while in my doc's waiting room the other day. It is outstanding and this is relevant to all of us with chronic inflammation.http://docsaleeby.blogspot.com/2013/10/inflammation-and-biomarkers.html
- I started Meloxicam (Mobic) about 10 days ago. I was amazed at how well that little pill took my pain and inflammation away. I was ecstatic, thinking I had finally found something to help me out of my misery. Well, about the third day on it, I...
- I've been on Orencia for three months now, and I am absolutely worse off than when I started. Of course, I was already having problems, as it seemed my Humira had stopped working. It could be that stopping the Humira is what made me worse. The...
- I have "trigger finger" caused by my RA. The first joint of the third finger on my right hand is permanently bent forward to about a 90 degree angle and the second joint is bending in the opposite direction (up). It is painful to try to bend it...
- I don't know what happened between yesterday and today, but for some reason, today, I felt better than I have in months. I felt like my blood was actually getting oxygen, my joints weren't hurting nearly as bad as they were just yesterday. I don't...
- I was sent to a lung doctor for a chronic cough (over 1 year) and shortness of breath on exertion. He did the pulse oximeter test (I didn't go below 91 after five minutes of walking), and a "breathing test." I passed that. He wants to do a high...
- I've been going to the same RA doc for five years. He's a nice guy, seems to want to help me, listens to my concerns when I'm there, and pretty much goes along with what I want to do in my treatment. But last week, when I sent him an email about...