hello, i hav'nt been on here in a while. i thought i would update to let people know the problems i have been facing, and see if anyone else has had these typs of issues. i found out that i have RA last september and the Dr. started me on meth and enbrel right away, and this january(four months later) i started having terrible side effects. i got prostitus and was having terrible headaches, mostly orgasim headaches! ya what a bummer! cuts into the sex life! they sent me to a nurlogist for ct scan and mri, luckly both turned out normal. the antibiotics for the prostitus seemed to clear everthing up, well at least for a while. i felt ok from feb through march, then i started another side effect, severe diarreha. ya that sucks too! so off to the digestive health Dr. they gave me some meds wich didnt work. they also at this time took me off of the enbrel and started me on humira, they said if i have chrones or something this would help me out anyway.then they scheduled me for a colonastopy, ya that sucked too! again they found nothing, wich is good i guess, but hasnt fixed my problem. i am just now gettin back to a normal digestive system, i have been taking culturell and a table spoon of metamucill for the last three weeks, that seems to help alot. but just in the last six weeks or so, my headaches came back and even worse this time, i wake up in the middle of the night with a pounding headache, the worst ever! plus it suddenly appears during sexual intercorse also, still a bummer! but i am gettin to the point i cant deal with all of this anymore, i am frustrated! i called my Rhumy. and told him to take me off of the meth. and lets find out wich meds are causing me these problems, and he did agree, and said i could stop the meth. my guess is its the meth? but it could be the humira, not sure yet. tomorrow will be two weeks since i last took the meth. all these side effects seem to be worse than the RA itself. i would love just to be normal again. Tom


Wow, all of that sounds horrible. I sure am sorry you are going through all of this. It sounds as if you have a good plan to get to the bottom of it though. Process of elimination with the meds. I also hope you are able to find a good med to help the RA without all the nasty side effects. Good luck and take care of yourself. Let us know how it turns out.