Ohhh, I keep getting into so much trouble with the program but I do feel
better.  A person is not suppose to change anything or take any new medicine
or change the amounts of medicine a person takes.   They want to know what
there medicine is doing with my body and nothing else.

  Ok,,,,ok,,, I understand that but I have this catch 22 that I deal
with,,,,, prednisone.  A person can not take 10 mg or more and be in the
program.   At the very start I was living on pred. and Naprosyn while I
lived through 30 days of getting Enbril out of my system.  I was taking 10
mg at the very start....only my RD kept me in.   Then,,,, when I was feeling
better,,, I lowered the pred to 7.5 because the more pred I take the worse
my shingles are.   The lady got soooo mad at me that I was nearly washed out
again  because I changed an amount of anything I take.  I can take being
chewed out as well as the next guy but she went on and on and on.   I
finally put my hand up and said,,,, I fully understand your point and
nothing I could say would change the fact that I changed the amount of
something I take,,,, can we move on now?
    The shots I take are a pretty big shot,,,,,two of them.   It seemed to
me that she gave them to me a little fast which hurts like hell.   I asked
her when I was going to be able to give myself my shots or shot.  Her
eyebrows went up and I thought she was going to start in on me again....LOL
I just smiled at her  and she said,,,, soon.
  I know that they are building up the medicine in my system but what I
have not told them,,,,,,,, is that I have started to itch in my lower back
like I did with Remicade.   I think it will be OK when I cut back to one
shot every two weeks.   So it goes.
Harv

Harvey,
How are you doing?  Do you think the med is kicking in?  I think it has been
a few weeks hasn't it?

Thinking of you.

Kelly