Being Easter and the evenings getting longer, or as us Irish say "there's a grand stretch in the evening" I decided to freshen up the look of the blog with a simple, clean look. Which will hopefully make it more appealing to read. Thoughts welcome :)
I wanted to update on Week 6 has gone so far. Monday morning I visited my rheumatologist to check up on how I was doing. We had discussed how Cimzia just did not work for me, only after one dose. After what Enbrel had done to my skin, I'm very cautious trying anything new so when I felt it was worsening my skin as well as the reaction on the injection site, I wanted nothing more to do with it.
We then talked about Stelara, which I'm happy to start as I've heard of a good success rate with both psoriasis and Psoratic arthritis. He then said we'd wait another month to start it so as to ensure Cimzia was out of my system which I was happy to do as I had felt run down lately between different medications and light treatment. I can take methotrexate until then and I was also given a steroid shot into my hip to help my knees which have been giving me a bit of grief.
After my appointment, I then had my hospital appointment for light treatment and told the nurse the plans for Stelara after my break. Today I was back up to 1 minute and 11 seconds, I'm finally making progress again! Wednesday was my 15th session, and I was reminded to make an appointment with my dermatologist to determine how many more session if any (oh I know I'll have to) after session 18. I am pencilled in with my derm for next Tuesday.
Tomorrow is session 16 and I look forward to progressing further after feeling like its bit mostly 'one step forward, two steps back'. I don't have light treatment on Monday as it is a Bank holiday here in Ireland. I'm going be spending my Easter weekend being back at work, which I look forward to as I get to see my old work friends and have a laugh with them. It's only weekends for now until May which works out nicely with treatment and doctors!
Hope to update again during the week, but until then I hope you all have a happy Easter and munch away on some lovely chocolate.
I have always wondered about expanding my blog into other areas outside of psoriasis and treatments, I'm not sure if there is an audience. Please do feel free to comment or contact me in private and let me know.
Sarah x
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