How perfect is this prompt of Biologics and how I feel about them since I started my first injection this Monday? When I read about biologics and TNF I was like whoa! Much like the gif you see above!

I was on methotrexate and when I got a new Rheumatologist, he immediately took me off of methotrexate and the daily dose of Naproxen. He said I’d been on it way too long! I wasn’t getting any benefit from it but, I thought heck, I “guess” it’s working in comparison when I first was diagnosed. So we moved on to Arava. It worked very well. I didn’t have morning stiffness but, it still took me forever to get it together in the mornings and in my Prince voice, rest his soul, “Forever is a mighty long time.”-Go Crazy.

This year, I began to have numbness and tingling in my hands, arms, legs so severe it would wake me up in pain. After, many tests, I have a bad case of carpel tunnel and I have some nerve damage in my legs. My RA doc took me off Arava saying it might be the cause. The Neurologists bumped up my Gabbapentin. The RA doc said we have tried everything let’s move to an injection. My heart dropped.

I don’t want to stick myself was my first thought. Secondly, I don’t know about fake things hooking up with my real things in my body. I understand that the pills I swallow are man made, but eh…biologics is an even greater gamble of infections and I am already at risk for infections. There is no proof it works any better but, I have seen raving reviews of Embrel and I have seen blank stares as if, it didn’t do much.

I gave myself my first injection Monday. I haven’t had any immediate side effects. I have not had any immediate relief as I am in a flare of two days now. So, I don’t know how I feel about Biologics. Sometimes, with RA and Fibro…I just get tired of feeling, thinking, and worrying so much.

~Nikki