so this one armed massage therapist walks into a room...

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I dont' have the rest of the joke, thank goodness.

But my arms swelled up and turned purple yesterday and I ended up

forever at my rheumy's office, taking down the swelling. The pain was

horrible. They wanted to keep me overnight, but thankfully the

swelling started to go down and they reluctantly let me go home. There

wasn't anything bad like sepsis (they were suspecting sepsis), just a

severe RA flare in my arms probably because I use them so much. If I

had not gone, I might have lost my arms because the circulation was so

compromised. They are back to normal(ish) today, but still very

bruised. I look like I went boxing without the gloves!

I've heard of this type of swelling with diabetics, but never with RA.

It was scary. I don't have diabetes. My kidneys were not

compromised. My liver panel was okay. It was just a freakish thing

that seems to happen to lucky me.

So I'm on a new-totally-different cocktail of meds soon. How many

people take Orencia and how many take Retagade ( I think that is the

name..I have pain pump so my memory is not so good right now) I have

to decide bw the two today. Plus I have about $5k worth of Humira and

MTX in my fridge that I dont' know what to do with now.

KElly