vintage whine
Day two of perc-free living. I’m not a fan. Trying to give my liver a break, though, with the scary and extreme toxicity of the mtx that I have to take. My mom gave me a book about treating RA with antibiotics and I might try it. It sounds plausible.
I’ve been wondering how long I have really had this issue. I have boxes and boxes of my health records from when I was a kid in my basement. (mom kept them, I don’t know why)I found one thing that reminded me of a time when I was 18? or so when I had this weird thing in my knees- they just locked up and I could barely walk. I had completely forgotten about this, D might remember. They treated me with some steroids and it just went away. Before that I don’t remember clearly, I was always having bad headaches as a child. I remember feeling so incredibly exhausted in high school, I couldn’t stay awake. I was tested for diabetes and hypoglycemia and all sorts of other stuff a bunch of times. I wonder if they ever considered RA. I’ll have to look though the medical records more and see. I was just thinking about this because I remember this feeling from when I was a kid, this feeling of sitting behind my desk feeling my joints turn to rock. I learned yesterday that this is not just a perception, but an actual medical phenonemon called ‘gelling’ where, at rest the synovial fluid in the joint capsules doesn’t stay as liquidy as it should and it gels, making the joints stiff and painful.
It hurts and it sucks. FYI. I wanna perc.
