Shoo Flu, dont bother me!!!

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Hi group:

I have been absent as of late, I got really sick.

I am almost caught up with reading the last month's postings.

I got the SWINE FLU, but still glad I refused that hyped-up, money making, drug

company invented vaccine, I still will refuse it next year too!!! I took the

regular flu shot, fat lot of good it did..L0L:))...anyways, was I sick for about

a month! It started with a very high (104) fever for 2 days, it took an entire

week for it to go down to 101 where it stayed for another 4 days, then after

plenty fluids, and being in the hospital for 2 days, I was vomiting, dehydrated,

the worst I have ever been and sick, I couldnt get up for about 10 days, well

with IV fluids and Reglan I recovered, but then i developed hypersensitive

airways and asthma, so after a bout with ventolin, z-pac, prednisone and

flovent, I finally, after one month, got better.

Now, of course, I couldnt take my Enbrel, nor methotrexate, and I just started

back last week, ugh!!! I am feeling the RA creep back into my blood, everything

hurts, especially shoulders, jaw, hands....I am doing the prednisone dance, but

I know it will take awhile for the Enbrel and MTX to build back up into my

system. When I first started it took more thsn 6 months before I felt the RA

under control, now I feel like I am back to square one, BUT MORE EDUCATED THANKS

TO THIS GROUP.

If I didnt have this group to read I would be lost. What I realized is to never

fear, have confidence in my body's ability to withstand anything and in knowing

that " I aint going out like this "

Be well everybody

OKD