From Remicade to Humira

Apr 15, 2009

I’m making the switch from to for my crohn’s disease.

The muscle , which we attributed to an to , went away mostly.  However, after my 3rd treatment, the achey returned (maybe some slight , but mostly just ).  It was my elbows, fingers and wrists, ankles and knees.  For the most part, after about 5 weeks, all that remains of the are one elbow and both knees - consistently anyway.

Doctor today seemed like he was thinking about suggesting another round of … but then just said, lets just do , I think that’s what we should do… Are you ok with it?  Oh, yes.  Definitely ok with it.  I certainly don’t want to feel these and pains… not feeling confident to carry laundry up from the basement for fear my knees will give out.. or carrying a couple bags of groceries makes my arms feel like they’ll fall off.. while I am happy to not have the abdominal pain, I didn’t plan to trade it for other pain.

The tail bone pain I was feeling before the holidays is completely gone. I actually wouldn’t have given it any thought, except he asked about it today.  So, I’m assuming the was small and insignificant enough it just went away.

So, .  I will go to the doctors office and a nurse will show me how to do it.. from then, I will adminster the shots myself at home.  They assured me it’s easy to do - but I also don’t want to mess it up, as it’s so expensive.  No pressure.  But really, I think giving myself a shot will be a cake walk compared to going and sitting for hours at the while they give me an of .. yeah, I really don’t mind the switch.

Now, keeping fingers crossed Doc can push the change through my .

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