Posted by: SynovialSensation on: July 14, 2010
I’m just out of consult, and it’s as good as it gets. It’s a sort of remission, or a serious damping down at any rate. I have to live with the monthly peaks, plan around them and get exercising again preferably without injuring myself this time. Lesson learnt, just because it feels good at the [...]
Posted by: SynovialSensation on: August 3, 2009
…the steroid jab on the 22nd July I mapped the RA pain like this picture shows. It’s the aide memoir I did for the nurse. Heavy lines are the really sore parts, the ones that keep you awake, others just hurt. Blanks or crosses mean no pain there.
Posted by: SynovialSensation on: July 24, 2009
I have been trying to post for two days with no respite from stuff to do and naps to nap. My second anti-TNF assessment was also very quick and was a basic rubber stamping exercise. I wonder how much the assessment process costs the NHS, when it was clearly a hoop being jumped through in [...]
Posted by: SynovialSensation on: July 21, 2009
These immortal words greeted my first ever depot jab, last September, of steroids. Oh they were a relief. However, I’m scared of them as a drug class, proper scared, since i nursed a fair number of scary, leary ‘roid ragers when I worked in psychiatry. Yes I know these are different to the bodybuilder ones, [...]
