Humira isn't supposed to make you sick, it's supposed to make you feel better. Personally, it's been my miracle medication, enabling me to live my life again. I have a friend who has Chrohn's who was helped a great deal by Humira.

We all decide what risks we are willing to take to live a fairly normal life and although there are some potentially severe side effects with Humira, most people have very manageable side effects - I wrote a post last year about managing side effects that includes some of the common side effects of the Biologics that you may find useful.  If you're sick 60% of the time and in so much pain you can get up to get a glass of water, you have to ask yourself how much of a life that is and what you're willing to risk to get your life back.  I was in a severe flare in 2004 that completely took my life away, leaving me in extreme pain and able to just sit and get through each day (usually crying a lot of the time).  the Biologics sounded potentially really scary, but my everyday life was really scary, so I started on Enbrel (changed to Humira two years later). And got better. Got so much better that the only way I can describe it is that it was a miracle and I am still living that miracle, able to work, laughing every day, doing things I hadn't thought I'd ever be able to do again. Yes, there is the potential for some really serious side effects, but I have my life back and to me, it's worth the risk.

What is your life worth? Only you can decide that.