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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Lupus / December 2003Pain, pain, pain
I did a dumb dumb thing today. I did not take my meds until late afternoon and I overdid things today. Consequently I am in awful pain and need to whine..... cheese please? Shame of me. Why don't I get with the program? I caused my own misery this time. :>( Nettie >I did a dumb dumb thing today. I did not take my meds until late afternoon >and I overdid things today. Consequently I am in awful pain and need to >whine..... cheese please? Shame of me. Why don't I get with the program? >I caused my own misery this time. :>( > >Nettie and you'll do it again, Nettie. I've done it several times over the years and yes, it's rough. we don't think the meds are doing much sometimes - until we forget to take them. :P gentle hugs, kcat Yes kcat.... it really should be the first thing I take with food in the am. But then I get busy and forget. I am already on an increased dose of Prednisone for an RA flare and boy am I hurting tonight. Tomorrow I will have to take an extra 5mg. to pull me out of it again. Plus I inject Methotrexate on Sunday and that alone makes me miserable for a couple of days. But at least I am walking and getting around. The alternative is by far worse!!! :>)) Nettie > >I did a dumb dumb thing today. I did not take my meds until late afternoon > >and I overdid things today. Consequently I am in awful pain and need to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > gentle hugs, > kcat Hi Nettie! I have been AWOL, I know. Reasons are as you have described. I over extended myself cleaning snow off the roof of my car & didn't get back to you. I hope you're feeling better by now & back on track with your meds. The MTX really bites me hard for the coupla days following the shot too. I will get on my arthritic knees this week & beg to do it at home, so I can take it Thursday night. Only if I have to, but I will. I'll cry too if need be. They've been allowing me to have some back-up MTX at home. I just take it from the vial & put it with juice, but I only absorb 17.5mg & was taking 20mg via injection. I have done fine on 17.5 for the last 3 weeks that I've done it at home, so I will insist on staying there as well. We'll see what happens. If you hear my name on the news, please send bail money. :-Þ Hugs, Maggie Oh Maggie, MTX is awful isn't it? Yesterday my husband and I did some power grocery shopping and last minute stuff. I had taken my injection that a.m. By the time I got home I had chills and was about in tears. I just doped myself up with pain meds and headache meds and sleep meds. Still did not get to bed and asleep until about 1:00 or 2:00. The Prednisone burst I am on right now is keeping me awake. I did sleep until 11:00 today though so that should help. Good luck to you. Please try the injection method to bypass the digestive system. It made me so sick to my stomach taking orally. I wouldn't do it any other way at this point. Injections are quick and easy. I inject into my thigh. Well it is Monday and I have do some house straightening and make my special potatoes for Thursday. All of this will not end until the weekend after New Years when we go to my husband's family gathering out of town. Gawd..... this is getting rough. Then in April, I get to do this all over again cuz my stepdaughter is getting married. That week is going to be mad...... Fortunately her mom and stepdad are there to help out as well. We get along so fine.... really, we do. We are friends and spend lots of family time together. We do it for the sake of the kids. There is no reason for us to be bitter. She and I are very much alike in many ways and my husband and her husband are too. So.... we are proud of how we handle this. Anyway, I went off on a tangent. Sorry. Have a great Holiday and take care. Nettie Hi Nettie! I have been AWOL, I know. Reasons are as you have described. I over extended myself cleaning snow off the roof of my car & didn't get back to you. I hope you're feeling better by now & back on track with your meds. The MTX really bites me hard for the coupla days following the shot too. I will get on my arthritic knees this week & beg to do it at home, so I can take it Thursday night. Only if I have to, but I will. I'll cry too if need be. They've been allowing me to have some back-up MTX at home. I just take it from the vial & put it with juice, but I only absorb 17.5mg & was taking 20mg via injection. I have done fine on 17.5 for the last 3 weeks that I've done it at home, so I will insist on staying there as well. We'll see what happens. If you hear my name on the news, please send bail money. :-? Hugs, Maggie >Oh Maggie, MTX is awful isn't it? Yesterday my husband and I did some power >grocery shopping and last minute stuff. I had taken my injection that a.m. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >any other way at this point. Injections are quick and easy. I inject into >my thigh. I have read where other people have problems with MTX and surprised. When they first was told I had Lupus my doctor put me on Prednisone and that stuff tore me up. I put on weight fast and was sick from it. When I told my doctor he put me on MTX and been on it for about four years now and doing great. I take four, 2.5 MG a week which I guess is light. I was taking all four on Sunday and by Friday I was bombed out so I had a talk with my doctor and I now take 2 on Sunday and 2 on Thursday. Seems to get me through the week better. Crazy but works. I have been having a few light flares but I get going and don't know when to stop. If I lay down in the afternoon I do pretty good. Funny how this thing called Lupus works on us all different and Old man weather works on us also. TO ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! >>>---LDW----> Hi Larry! I hope to take the pills when I get down to 10mg. so, I'm glad you mentioned that about taking them on different days. Yeah, it does hit everyone different. Lupus *&* the MTX. I was surprised when you said come Friday you were bombed. It starts bombing me within hours it seems, but this was injections, so it will work differently than pills. The liquid that I've been consuming is actually easier to take in terms of an energy crises, but still....it does get me down. It's nice to hear from another MTX user, BTW. Sorry that you're on it of course, but now you have a club membership. : ) Take care & Merry Christmas to you! Hugs, Maggie Maggie: I got methotrexate over two months intravenously; yeah, no orange juice! But mine was for cancer although my myositis (muscle inflammation) rather liked it! I was told by a nurse that meth. was just a cancer drug, then doctors started to notice the effect it was having on RA patients being treated... Grace. > Hi Larry! > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Hugs, > Maggie Sigh, Nettie, that is. :) > Maggie: > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Hugs, > > Maggie Still praying for ya Grace!!! :>)) Nettie > Sigh, Nettie, that is. :) > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > > Hugs, > > > Maggie |
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