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What do 20lbs, Birth control, and MTX have in common?

4/2/2013

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ME!

So, yesterday was my
6 month check up with my Rheumatologist.
I was dreading it. I had not been taking my meds like I should (I was taking them every other week). I knew I had gained allot of weight after a bought of seasonal depression, a demanding semester of nursing school, terrible premenstrual syndrome and a new boyfriend. I thought she was going to lecture me. I was wrong.

Methotrexate........
She took me off it! Thank you god I am off that stuff. It was causing me to lose two
days a week to fatigue and grogginess. I can not afford to lose that while in school. I no longer have to worry about all those side effects!!! I am elated. She now has me on  weekly Enbrel only because I am doing so well. I am so grateful. This has given me a serious burst of motivation, which I desperately needed.

Birth Control............
The last few months my premenstrual symptoms have been off the charts. for about two solid weeks I eat from sun up
to sun down, suffer from depression, my moods are all over the place, my joints hurt, and I am always nausea's and have GI issues. I don't know why the change but my hormones are wiggity wack! I am hoping birth control will regulate this. I see my NP next week and am going to see what kind she suggests as I really don't want to gain anymore weight.


Does anyone have any input on birth control, hormones and RA????

20lbs.........................
When I was weighed yesterday I was shocked to see how much I had gained. It slowly made its way on my body on my body quietly, pound at a time. I had the worst case of seasonal depression I have had in some time, but I didn't want to face it and just kept eating. I started dating someone and you know how that goes, dinner dinner dinner. Combine this with being in nursing school and I am now a house. I have always struggled with weight, it is my curse. My way of punishing myself for reasons I don't know. I will now, like always, find my way to the treadmill and start to rid myself of this weight. Next year, I will hopefully have better insurance, I will get phrophalactic antidepressants and some cognitive behavioural therapy and hope this doesn't happen again.

HAVE A PAIN FREE WEEK!

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You are not alone.................

10/25/2012

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Life. It seems to get in the way sometimes. Trying to juggle school, friends, family, work, illness and everything in between, I sometimes forget what it is all for. My purpose. This week I recieved a lovely e-mail from a mother whose daughter has been suffering for many years. It could not have come at a better time. It reminded me of how I felt not too long ago. Scared, alone, desperate for answers. I had this disease but couldnt find anyone to relate to. My head was spinning. That is when I decided to start this site. To provide a place were other girls like myself can find hope. Without hope I would not have gotten through all this. I feel more and more like my old self everyday. It is not without sacrafice and sick Carrie is a completely different person than healthy Carrie. I dont get it right all the time, I sometimes do things to my body that I know I shouldnt. But this is how I live a life that still feels normal. A life that is not filled with pain and fatigue. I hope that you all know, we will survive, we must. There is no other option but to go forward. When those around us dont understand what it feels like to writh in pain. To want nothing more than to wake up in the morning with energy. To live a day where the smallest amount of stress doesnt send waves of pain thorough your body. Those moments when you struggle to breathe from inflammation but say nothing as you fear just speaking of it will send you into shock. If I have learned anything, I have learned that only the sick understand what it is to be sick. Others can say they understand, but they dont. It was hard for me to not fault others for this, but now I have learned my purpose. My purpose is to care for the sick in any way possible. Be it as a nurse, as a friend, or as someone who will for the rest of my life, be sick.

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