Searching for the right cocktail....

August 15, 2009

We all seem to be searching for the right cocktail to make our pain go

away and make us feel like we did at one time. sorry to be a doubting

downer but once being diagnosed with RA your life and those around you

will never be the same. there is no perfect cocktail especially with

the drugs medical doctors prescribe. None will ever make us feel the

way we once knew. So do we take more or less, do we mix and match arava

with methotrexate, or prednisone with Humira, or cortisone with Enbrel,

or this with that...and still wish we felt better. Yep....that's RA.

I've been told that I should not drink while being on most of these

meds, but on some of my worst days, I must confess, not many things

could stop me from closely finishing a twelve pack. I believed, and

some times still do, that if I wanted a good night's sleep, beer could

make it happen. So long as to not put anyone elses lives in danger.

Sometimes a nice big bottle of wine at the back table or at a

bonefire....I'm not proud of it, but it happens.

Something else that has happened...I strongly believe in the benefits of

mj...not proud of that either...but if I had the choice of a any

prescription med or a couple puffs of smoke...i choose smoke...even

before alcohol. I gave up smoking it for a little over a month. I feel

better with it than without it. I am in less pain, I get better sleep,

and I get more chores and things done.

Before being diagnosed with RA, i never smoked, drank maybe a dozen

times a year, and was a very active person. I don't know, has RA made

me an alcoholic and a dope addict. I try not to believe so but even if

I am, it seems better to me than the side effects of prescription drugs

in comparison.

Take care everyone, and I hope I didn't offend anyone. Thanks for the

opportunity to vent.

(musiclvr3237)

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