Feeling Gooder

[Guest guest]

Hi, folks!

I had been hurting a great deal lately and was getting pretty discouraged.

I reacted to the gold treatment for my RA, was changed to methotrexate but

it takes a while to kick in, so I'm shoved into a flare. In an attempt to

find another anti-inflammatory that would help, changing only seemed to make

things worse. Friends and people from church noticed that I was obviously

hurting.

My rheumatologist (RD) was stringing me along for a number of months with

the promise of better relief from the new COX-2 inhibitors coming out, but

when I finally get to see her, she changes her story, saying the Celebrex is

not any more powerful than my Oruvail and that she can't prescribe it

because the insurance companies require her to certify that I have had a

perforated ulcer first. Then she says that ALL of the NSAIDS are equal in

potency (so why did she switch me temporarily from Oruvail to Voltaren once

when I had my first attack of polyarthritis?) so she can't prescribe

anything stronger for me. Why lie to me about the potency of her list of

NSAIDS, when she knows that I really do know better? When I challenged her

about stringing me along about the COX-2s, she blatantly told me that she

made no such promises. Why not just apologize right off and tell me that she

thought the Celebrex would be easier to prescribe?

The only good thing that came out of my visit to the RD was a prescription

for methylprednisolone (a corticosteroid). After the first big dose I'm

ready to do my Brown imitation ( " I feel good, da da, da da, da da,

da! " ). It never fails to surprise me how much pain I've been in until it

gets relieved! And then there is this brief bright time of what it must

feel like to move without any pain, until it wears off. And then there is

the grief over knowing that it won't last for long, and that the dark shroud

of pain will return to weigh me down again.

For now, I'm feeling " gooder " .

Lois

Grace... Power Made Perfect in Weakness

(2 Cor. 12:9)

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 3/15/99 9:20:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,

ladenier@... writes:

> For now, I'm feeling " gooder " .

I am grateful for your sake that you have relief. May His Grace not only

sustain you but that His Mercy Heal you.

Mad.