Update
Author: Administrator
Category: Thursday Thirteen
I’m sorry I haven’t been on here much lately. I’ve been having a lot of health challenges.
The good news: No problems with C DIF since I finished my medication in December, and they didn’t find anything wrong on any of my blood work.
The bad news: The reactive arthritis is still going strong, and could be here for 12-18 months.
They gave me some steroids last weekend to help with the inflammation, and that helped bring the pain down from a 9/10 to around a 1 or a 2. But being in near-constant pain for the past 7 months has just really ground me down emotionally and mentally, as well as physically. It’s hard not to go to the dark place in my thoughts when I feel so bad for so long.
So I’m currently spending all my time trying to figure out how to waterproof my computer, my knitting, and all my books so I can live in the bathtub, as the water helps take all the pressure off my joints.
Any good thoughts would be much appreciated 
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4 Comments so far
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wendy
May 13th, 2008 at 11:21 am
and i think i have it bad when i have sinus infections for a couple of weeks. teehee. i am so sorry that you are having to go through all of this. i will write your name down somewhere prominent so that i will see it daily and pray. xoxoxoxoxo thinking of you………….xoxoxoxoxo
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yoshi
May 13th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
anything that brings down the pain from a 9 to 1 or 2 has gotta rock. Thank goodness for that. Wow. that’s just some seriously bad comfortness.
But you will persevere! I know how you feel though (not quite as painful, just about though), and about posting. crazy. chin up now, let’s be gung ho!
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SquarePeg
May 16th, 2008 at 12:04 am
I’m sorry that you’re suffering from inflammation.
I don’t know if I already mentioned this, but there are proteins in certain foods that can cause inflammation. Wheat is one such food.
The Blood Type diet helped me with joint pains that I started to get a couple of years ago. There’s also an Arthritis protocol by the same doctor that created the blood type diet:
http://www.dadamo.com/protocols/7.html
There’s an introduction to the Blood Type diet here:
http://www.dadamo.com/knowbase/newbie/1.htm
Also, have you tried adding Epsom Salts to your bath?
Good luck and good health to you!
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Jean Browman--Cheerful Monk
May 18th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Bless you. I don’t know if it will do any good, but I’m praying for you. I love your posts, so thanks for writing when you’re up to it.