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Love/Hate relationship with medications

by  arthritismom
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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I was diagnosed in 2003.  I have a daughter from my first m...

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I used to be one of those people who never took medications.  If I had a headache, I would lie down and rest, drink water and wait for it to go away.  If I had a cold, I stayed hydrated and ate well and let it pass.  In hindsight, I'd say I was proud of my immune system and trusted it to work properly.

 

Not any more.

 

Today I wake up and take two Motrin, four 1mg of prednisone, a calcium tablet and a prescription strength folic acid tablet.  I take three calcuim a day and later I take more Motrin.  On Saturdays I take six 2.5mg of methotrexate.  Once every other week I inject Humira with a thing I fondly call a Torture Injection Pen.

 

I know I'm lucky.  The drugs work for me.  The let me be myself and face the world and care for my kids and be a good wife.  I know what it means to not have that, I watched my mom struggle for years taking asprin and a serious of horribly ineffective and sometimes damaging treatments.  But I still hate that I have to take all these medications.  I love them for what they do, and I hate that I need them.

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