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Happy New Year!
Merry Ho-ho and a happy new year 🙂 I’m encouraged so far this year. This year has come with 2 new diagnosis’, and hopefully will be my last. Good news, bad news, good news, bad news. After a bunch of … Continue reading
Million Dollar Smile!
Okay, not quite $1,000,000, but so far we are up to $31,000. Holy crab cakes. Thank you prednisone and methotrexate! *insert eyeroll here* After almost an entire year of budgeting, saving, stressing, selling our souls, children, kidneys and fearing – we … Continue reading
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Tagged dermatomyositis, methotrexate, pain, prednisone, shame, side effects
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Updates and Kittens
Kittens! Okay, so that’s kind of an aside, but let’s touch on the fun stuff first. About a month ago Zed got a call from one of his contractors saying that a very small kitten had wandered into a bank downtown … Continue reading
Dental Adventures in DermatomyositisLand
2 years ago I walked into my dentist’s office, and had no idea the shitstorm what awaited me. After the dental assistant took the x-rays, she strut back into the patient room with an entirely different demeanor. The friendly … Continue reading
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Tagged dental, dermatomyositis, health issues, methotrexate, prednisone, resolve, Strength, teeth
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Well, it certainly has been a while.
On the bright side, it’s been almost a month now that I have been off prednisone – YAY! And I mean that in the most absolute and utterly incredulously, most amazing way humanly possible. The crisis of insanity is OVER! … Continue reading
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Tagged autoimmune, multiple sclerosis, rambling, stuff, trigeminal neuralgia
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What? Fibromyalgia is real?
Well. After / during an extremely strange acting case of pneumonia (probably brought on by all the long days, double shifts, and ridiculous hours I worked over Christmas) I was in my internist’s office after maxing out the prednisone yet again, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Faith, Fate, fibromyalgia, Justgottabewhereyouneedtobe, Lyrica, prednisone, Strength
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And here a little lot of real…
Well. The things they don’t tell you and you have to find out on your own. The past week I have been a train wreck. My life is a train wreck. I cry for no reason.. *NO* reason.. I have … Continue reading
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Tagged Breakdown, Sanity, Strength, Warrior
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An Introduction to Prednisone and My No Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day.
Take it, they said. It’ll make you feel better, they said. It’s a wonder drug that saves lives!, they said. What they didn’t say is how in ‘massive’ doses prednisone will also make you gain weight, lose your hair, develop … Continue reading
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Tagged autoimmune, dermatomyositis, prednisone, side effects
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A Bit of Background.
Slightly over a year ago I never knew a simple meet and greet with a new doctor would change my life as I knew it. I was passionately playing competitive roller derby in a league I had started with a … Continue reading
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