went to the rheumy update

[Guest guest]

Well it's official, I am back on treatment. I finally made it to my

rheumatologist (granted I had to miss my mathematics curriculum for elementary

students class) and things went pretty much as I expected. Swelling in both

wrists, knees, shoulders, and hands. She said there was not a lot of fluid

rather the tissue was swollen (I'm guessing that means something but I do not

know what). Dr. C started me back on prednisone, that will be our starting

point. She is apprehensive on starting me back on biologics after the problems I

had with my blood last year (the whole red blood cell count being low and taking

almost a year for it to recover fully and that was after being off treatment for

a year). It was expected, I knew it was coming, I had prepared myself walking in

there that I would most likely be back on treatment when I walked out, but

despite all that my heart feels broken. I made it almost two years without

treatment, two years! I really thought I

was past this part in my life, almost two years of remission, and I'm back. I

haven't felt right for six months, I knew it was coming, but it doesn't change

the disappointment. In July when I had a cyst the size of a golf ball on my left

wrist, I knew it was inevitable, but still it is disappointing. Despite all that

I know I have to get over it, I have come this far, I have worked my butt off

for what I am doing right now, I will not let any of this slow me down.

Hopefully the meds will work quick (and we know pred usually does) and I will

start feeling like me again and even better actually able to keep up with my

kinders. I have to wait a week to start up on the meds because I have a course

of antibiotics to take first. Got a little one inch wound on my foot from

helping the bf's mom move into her  new house, and well apparently my immune

system is so busy fighting itself it didn't manage to heal the wound. So seven

days of Keflex for that and onto

pred. I'm trying to stay positive, it could be worse.

With Love,

(MCTD, 23)