Sitting here in the hospital.. | Arthritis Information

 

This is the second time I've landed in the hospital with something this serious while on Humira so I think maybe it's going to be a little too potent for me. 

 

Anyway...I just thought I'd drop an update while my wife had the laptop here doing some work.

 

Bob H.

 

I'm really sorry to read about your troubles and that you are in the hospital.

 

I had shingles along my eye once.   It was very painful.

 

I hope you feel better soon.

 

Reegie

Cathy

 

My MIL... she is coming down with a case of shingles on her face, again. Well... she gets at least one episode of shingles every year, since she had hodgkins disease. She is going to the doctor Monday to get something to clear it up. Her face where her mouth is and her cheek is swelled and she says it is painful.

 

Much Hugs to you, Bob!

 

Keep us in the loop - steal the wife's laptop!

 

Pip

 

Bob; GET WELL SOON!!

 

I'm real sorry you're in the hospital. Hope they can get you over this quickly. Take Care.

 

On a side note to this thread.  Has anyone here stopped taking Enbrel because it just didn't seem to be getting the job done, gone to something else for a year or so and then tried Enbrel again and it worked?  I was just wondering about that since Humira has put me in the hospital twice now in 4 months with a serious infection.  I tried Remicade right after stopping Enbrel for about a year and it didn't do much for me either.  (but I think it wasn't the drugs fault...long story)

 

Bob H.

 

So sorry to hear about all you're going through.  In the past I've been in the hospital for days and in a rehab facility for months, stuck in a room, so I know what you're going through, gets tedious and sorta lonely sometimes.

 

Glad to hear you're doing better.  Shingles is no fun, I know of four people that have had that, hope it never reappears.

 

I've had RA for 31 yrs, and have been on different drugs.  I've asked that same question you've raised to my RA doc, if I went off enbrel to try something else, and it didn't work, could I go back on enbrel, and he said yes.  Of course, we're all different, and I don't know if the time in between stopping and restarting enbrel would be a factor.

 

How's the food there?  lol  Generally food in those places aren't the greatest, so I hope family and friends are bringing in some good chow.  Also to pass the time, have you tried doing those sudoku puzzles?  I hated them when I first attempted doing one, but then I got hooked for awhile, start on the easy ones, there are different levels.

 

Maybe hide your wife's laptop, so when she leaves she'll forget to take it, and then you can echat and google all day long.  lol

 

Well, Bob, take care, hang in there, you'll be going home soon -- time flies when you're having fun -- not.  The nice thing is that we both have our own laptops so I'm using mine now.  I had a hard drive meltdown on it but the manufacturer sent me a new one and I just finished reinstalling windows and getting things the way I like them.  I asked my doc the same question once and she said she has never done this with meds, but might be willing to try.  The thing is that the Enbrel really didn't quit working.  I was just sooo distracted by school and trying to study that I forgot to take it quite a few times and well....if you don't take the medicine correctly that's what you get. I'm on enbrel and mtx.   When you were on enbrel, were you taking one 50 mg shot a week?  My RA doc prefers I take the 2 - 25mg shots once a week, thinks it's more effective. Hi Bob, Best wishes.Hope you feel better. I have had cellulitis. Luckily I didn't have to be hospitialized. I went every other day to the opthomolgist(sp?) and took antibiotics. But the dr. sure scared the heck out of me...didn't miss any of those appointments. Mine was pre-orbital cellulitis.

Sorry they are keeping you longer but glad you are getting good care.

BeckyBob, I just saw your post. I'm so sorry you are in the hospital and suffering with shingles! My rheumy recently told me to ask my pcp for a shingles vaccine. I'm not on any of the  meds that suppress the immune system, so she wants me to get it now, while I can. She says I have plenty of pain, I don't need shingles, too.  That's what I'm thinking about you.  I've never had shingles, but have heard it is extremely painful. Feel better soon!Wow Bob, I'm so sorry you are going through all this. I had no idea shingles is so serious. I hope you get to go home soon! It was my understanding that shingles can not give Chicken Pox to those who have not had it.  However, that Chicken Pox can make those who have had it develop a case of Shingles.  That's what I learned in RN school anyway.