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- My UPS guy has seen a lot of things here over the years. He's walked onto the screened back porch and nearly stepped on newborn lambs, goats, or turkey chicks. He was once attacked by a feral peacock that had come to live with us for the summer...
- Still tilting at the windmill of incompetence that is the trifecta of my doctor's office, the specialty pharmacy, and my insurance company: my scrip for Humira has been cancelled a THIRD time because someone in that loop manages to screw it up,...
- I haven't checked in recently (this site is not user friendly, is it? yeesh) but wanted post a brief whining update just becaue you all will understand, and I want to share one really important tip for anyone who gets a scrip for Humira or another...
- I have noticed several posts from people who have recently learned, as I did nine months ago, that they will now need to take daily meds forever, and they write that they are struggling to accept that. I have read posts filled with understandable...
- Perhaps this will be helpful to anyone who is a month or two behind me - and bear in mind two things, please. One, I will sound a bit frustrated here, but I'm genuinely not; I'm stuck in the system now, and this is how systems work. And two, I'm...
- I'll start injections in mid-January (or as soon as it clears the insurance hurdles and is shipped to me). My rheumatologist will do the first one, or guide me through it under her supervision, rather. At my apointment last week, she send me home...
- My first symptom was a red, swollen finger joint. Even after 6 months of meds, it still looks like a bee sting. It's not as hard a bone, but not squishy soft either. What exactly is it? I know RA attacks joints, I've read up on synovial...
- Cold, damp weather seems to make my hands worse. But those are my best hair days. i guess that means I always have something to look forward to when I wake up?
- I have taken 6 pills of methotrexate each Sunday night for the past six weeks. It *seems* that I have considerably less fatigue Tuesday through Friday. As if it takes a day to kick in, and thebn sort of wears off before the end of the week....
- Because of an issue not related to RA, my family doctor and I agreed that I should do a round of physical therapy. Since I was going anyway, he also agreed to write a second scrip for therapy for my RA-swollen hands. (The actual scrip was...
- I've had a succession of used pickup trucks on the farm over the years. I've loved some of them, and a few have been clunkers. I name them, and I bond with them in a fiercely weird way, unable sometimes to admit when they're failing.I recently...
- Today we added MTX to the Plaquenil which was prescribed three months ago. The results of the extensive bloodwork done at that visit show a moderate level of inflammation, but kidneys, liver and everything else seem to be okay. Officially, I...
- I'm newly diagnosed, two months on Plaquenil, nothing good happening yet, and some additional deterioration to my hands during that time. The symptoms that sent me to the doctor in the first place were sausage fingers and swollen red knuckles, but...