Ya ever have "one of those day's"??

By dryeyes2 Sunday, July 26, 2009

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Well" i'm having one of those days now! Actually it started yesterday morning-when i woke up. I somtimes really want to just stop taking this methotrexate so bad. But somewhere way back in my brain..i know this too-shall pass. I have been feeling this overwelming fatique that is so close to that dark place..that i have been a few times before. I'm trying my best to avoid that place today! I know deep down inside..that i have got to fight this with all my might, so that is why i am writing on here today..i am already feeling more powerful over this fight as i write. So thank you for letting me do so. It's just that these RA meds can be just as bad as the RA for me at times, and i feel like stopping the drugs rather then deal with their side effects. But realistically i have no choice, but to take these crappy meds. But i must say that i am feeling a little better now..just venting....Thanks

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Gridiron Granny

7/26/09 6:53pm

We all have those days, seriously! I hate the mtx so bad. For a year I took the pills and had the bad stomach pains and nausea and intestinal problems. Now I am on injectable and it's better.

Hang in there, the meds are bad but RA is so much worse.

dryeyes2

7/27/09 11:15am

Hi, Yes..i know that i'm not alone. I knew it when i wrote it, i don't know why i used that for a title,lol. But i do feel much better today. It really helps to be able to come on this site, and vent, and know that everyone here does know how you are feeling. Me too-i was on the pills and now the shots.

Thank you

Ratnapriya

7/27/09 3:31am

Hang on. Last Monday after having MTX on Sunday I had this terrible attack of dizzy spell sweating and trembling. I work in a research institute and luckily our doctor was there who found my bp down to 90/50. He diagnosed it to sheer exhaustion. These burn out phases is what I hate. I have them periodically. My doctor told me to stop workign and take rest. Since I am a research scientist with lots of administrative responsibilities too, I do not have the freedom to take rest once I get into the burn out cycle. By the time I have time to take rest my bp goes down really bad. Then it takes a week to ten days of slow working space and rich diet to get back in shape. Very frustrating. How do you manage these cycles of exhaustion.

Ratnapriya

dryeyes2

7/27/09 11:44am

My bp drops at times too, and it is very frightning-and with the dizzy spells with...shew" i even called the ambulance out to my house because of it, it scared me so bad, i wasn't sure what was happeneding to me, but i was just setting here in my chair filling out the address on a letter...and boom...i was so dizzy, and my heart felt weird, so i called 911...and i never do that! But i also felt this over whelming doom with this, thats why i called them. And i was so embrassed for calling them out-and as soon as they left-i had another dizzy spell-and called them back here, and they brought that bed thing out and up to the porch, and i told them i didn't need that. So i did walk to the ambulance truck..very slowly, and shakily..i was so weak. And i just sit down on the seat in the back of the ambulance, and the medic put the blood pressure deal on my arm, and then i had another one...and then ater a bit..the medic asked me...how do you feel now, and i said i'm fine now, and he said..that my bp dropped real low. To make a long story short..they gave me pills for dizzyness. They also suggested that i stay in the hospitol..b/c they could tell more about my heart if i stayed and they did tests. But i declined on that!

Oh you asked how i deal with the pure exhaution..i have them very often, and i'm not even working, i can't. I cannot even keep up with my house and stuff. I'm real lucky if one occasion-i can get one room done in my house. And i take lots of naps! You really are going to have to figure out a way to get more rest for your self-it is exstreamly important for your health.

Thank you-and good luck on that

dryeyes2

7/27/09 12:00pm

P.S. that was when i was on the pills-that i called the ambulance (about 3 years ago.) I was on the metho pills for close to 11 years. Now i'm on the shots..been on the shots for coming up on 3 months-i believe!

Ya ever have "one of those day's"??

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