Well, okay. I really dislike Thursdays. You work all week and it’s not even Friday yet. It’s such a let down. At least when you hit Wednesday, you feel good about making it halfway through the week.
I started liking Thursdays a bit better when I started taking my RA injections on Wednesday nights (first Humira, then Simponi, now Enbrel). Usually on Thursday morning, I would feel better.
Not this week. My usual Thursday morning “bump” is nowhere to be found.
Not sure exactly what is going on, but there could be some contributing factors:
- First, I’m not sure I’ve recovered from my marathon plane trip to Seattle and back on Monday. I’ve commented before how changes in pressure, including just being on a plane, is hard on my joints — not to mention 9 hours sitting in a cramped airline seat combined with a couple of hours more sitting in meetings.
- Second, there’s a storm front moving into Dallas. Tonight we’re supposed to be getting severe thunderstorms — rain, hail, lighting, flying cows — no wait, cows only fly during tornados (seriously). So the approach of the front may be causing some of the blahs.
- Another possibility, one that I really don’t want to contemplate, is that Enbrel may not be doing as much good for me as it did at first. I know that the severe itchy injection site reaction has completely disappeared, so that makes me wonder if my body has adjusted to the drug in other ways. I also flared last weekend, and I can’t remember the last time I had a systemic body flare. I’ve also noticed some small signs that the joint damage is progressing .
I really don’t like to think about the third possibility. And I really don’t like Thursdays either.
Hope that you like what’s going on in your life. Thanks for checking in.
It’s a pretty blah Thursday around here, too, Carla. I *feel* your pain. Even when I was working full time, Thursdays were not my favorite; we published the newspaper on Wednesday, so Thursday was a chaos of generating new story assignments and doing paperwork for the coming edition. Now, it’s just Thursday, nothing special, but this week it’s the third cold, rainy-sleety day in a row, my hips are still achy and loose, and my hands hurt. Wahhhh.
Okay, pity party is over. I hope that your stiffness and pain, post Enbrel, can be attributed directly to the long flight recovery and the incoming storm front, and I hope the Enbrel WILL kick in shortly. And hey, Thursday is nearly over. Soon you can head for home and fill up your bathtub full of nice, hot water for a long soak.
Chin up, friend. We’ll get through this. :o)