Yesterday I went to my GI and I had
mentioned that my Crohn’s had been acting up. I was on 10 mg of Prednisone and
about to taper down to 5 mg. We talked about going on Humira which I had a
feeling I was going to go on given my condition. My GI said it would take about
a month for Humira to start kicking in. Also he asked me how I felt and I
responded “pretty crummy”. I explained to him I had been sleeping 10 hours and
still felt tired, was nauseated, and had been vomiting. In the past week or so
I vomited around 3 times (mainly clear things). I do actually feel much better after I vomit
though since everything is out of your system. After hearing this he said he
would increase my Prednisone to 40 mg. I was taking this amount around
Christmas time and was eating out the whole refrigerator and pantry (good
times, good times).
I am really not worried about
taking Humira. I am curious to see the how much the pain is involved. The drug
has to be refrigerated (I live in Texas and hurricanes do hit so if that
happened I would have to buy some dry ice to preserve the medicine). My GI said
a nurse could come to the house to administer the medication. Today, I got a
call from a small pharmacy who would deliver the medication tomorrow and a
nurse would show up this Friday to show me how to use it and inject it.
These
past few weeks have been rough. My quality of life has suffered and I honestly
want to just get back to normal as humanly possible. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t
think about how my life would have been different had I never been diagnosed
with Crohn’s. However, this makes me want to work even harder to spread the
word not only about Crohn’s but scientifically proven treatments for this awful
disease.
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