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AS ankylosing spondilitis

Trying to adjust the methotrexate to be taken on Wednesday evenings...I really hate taking it, but I wanted to change from Friday to Wednesday. Thinking that I'd like to be over the sometime symtoms on the weekend...hoping that if I'm going to have nausia it will happen Thursday. Yes, I'm trying to PLAN for nausia and feeling like crap-the dreaded methotrexate hangover. What day would be best for me during the week. It's a shame that one must plan for this...but it is football season and I'd like to feel like cheering for my team on Saturday than to be in a state of methotrexate hungover! Been off humira for almost a month now and I'm thinking that maybe I do need it. This mornings thunderstorm wake at 4ish made me realize that my pain is getting worse. Couldn't hardly walk the back and ankles were so bad. Monthly rheumy visit on Monday...should be interesting visit. To humira or not! So just in case this is your first read or you still don't rea

new beginnings, new school year, i'm a mom!

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I know I'm not the best of blogging...between this posts and the last seems like a while, but it's been a very busy time for our house! And I don't think I could actually post this until now.... Sent our first born to college. You dread this day, but yet look forward to it..you're sad, but happy. The emotions that I felt, well, I couldn't even understand or comprehend. If one more person told me that this was what I wanted, that I still had my youngest at home..blah, blah, blah...I was thinking at any moment I "may go postal" on someone! The pain I was in-thank you A.S) on "college move in day" would NOT take away this experience from me. So, yep..I lofted beds, I carried boxes, I hung photos and zip-tied curtain rods! The room that my daughter would call home for the next year...would be HOME. Leaving that evening was going to be happy..make her feel loved, but no tears (not in front of her). Well, our youngest changed all of that! Insert the ug