So my liver is in distress, and i've been off SSZ for 2 weeks already. Haven't taken good ol' MTX this week, and haven't gotten down to taking my Plaquenil(i don't even think it does anything for me seriously).
What i can say, after such a long and hard rainy day, is that my joints are slowly making their presence known to me through the slow and insidious inflammation process. I just hope that it subsides through the night(which happens quite frequently recently). Because my liver is affected, i don't have a chance to use any painkillers, especially paracetamol and diclofenac. Only the diclofenac gel. :(
The weather is gonna be hard too. I'm actually pretty confident that my liver will recover in 3 weeks time when i redo my liver function tests. I'm looking forward to restarting MTX!
Should count my blessings though. Whenever i think of the patients i've had, my heart aches for some of them, and think of how fortunate i am to be able to do what i love, and have things easier with RA.
And thinking of it after speaking to my pharmacology lecturer(since she seems to know A LOT and that maybe she could figure the mystery behind this), i now truly understand why people have trouble with drug compliance, especially with diseases that have no physical manifestations. It gets sickening over time, and kinda pointless. I know i took my meds religiously when i was in a bad flare period, but when i got much better, it seemed such a chore.
That's how nurses can empathise with their patients- through their own experiences.
I should be fine really! My body's been really great the past few years because of dancing, and considering that i have an autoimmune disease, my immune system's been fantastic! This will just be a small obstacle. :D
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