I already posted this in the prayer forum, so if you have seen it, don't worry about this post.
I failed the biologic I have been on for the last 5 months. I have massive flares everywhere and I'm taking lots of OTC drugs to try and manage the pain. I can't walk or lift things. (Typing is still possible! Irony, hey?)
So he is starting me on a DMARD, Arava, which I took for lunch and I am now feeling the side effects already, including the liver hurting me, and dizziness.
He is also putting me on the last possible biologic out there, Orencia, because my RA is so severe (I am the patient with the worst RA he has ever seen!) So the med has to jump through some approval hoops, but hopefully some samples in the next day or two? It is a weekly needle, which shouldn't be too bad.
So I need prayer that these drugs will work, and with a minimum of liver issues or other side effects.
If Orencia and Arava fail, then it will be long term care for me. I've been crying a lot. Because other people I know who were on Orencia, it only lasted a year.
Thanks for listening.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program.