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I took my Enbrel shot on Satuday night (and the MTX) and I didnt get a headache yesterday. I hope that is the end of them. I really think I have been having more good days since starting the Enbrel. I dont know if it is too soon to tell, I mean maybe I am just getting lucky lately. But I hope this is really going to work. I still get pain in my feet, but overall I have been feeling pretty okay.Wew- hew! Glad your feeling better. Luck or Embrel we'll take it either way.

Crunchy I am sooo glad your headaches are gone.  After my third shot I have had no side effects.  First two made me sleep but that hasn't happened with the last three.

I took my fifth shot on Thursday and was so hyper Friday and Saturday my hubby couldn't keep up with me.  But, unfortunately I feel the 'crash' coming. 

I've started an 'enbrel diary' listing the side effects and whatnot of the shots each time I take them so I can tell if they are working or like you said, just luck.  But like dbmy3 says, I don't care..I'll take it either way.

It's funny that we have a disease that, even when we are doing fine, we are waiting around for the other shoe to drop!  I understand you feeling that way Crunchy.  Like you don't want to think you might actually be doing okay and then have another bad round or something.

I find that EVERY morning, when I first wake up, before I get out of bed, I am doing this total body inventory kind of thing.  I lay there saying to myself, "Okay, how do I feel, am I stiff, do I ache, etc.?"  And I have been doing well for awhile now!!  Just knowing what it felt like once, we may always be fearful, at some level, that it will return.  And for those who have had rocky roads, it must be even worse.

You dont know how good it is to hear yall say that!! Oh wait, you do.

I do the same thing---the inventory. But even so, when I stand up is the real test. My feet either are okay, or when I put weight on them I feel like I am stepping on a bed of nails.

But yes, I know that any of us can feel like a million bucks one day and feel like a train wreck the next. It is hard to get over that "shell shock".

I would love to forget all about RA, but that is not to be. I guess I will always be afraid. But I will take the good days no matter how I get them!

crunchy38880.2556712963Glad your headaches are gone...hopefully improvements will continue

I can't tell until I get up and try to walk. Sometimes it feels like my legs are not going to travel with the rest of me. And, sometimes, they don't.

Last night my hip hurt like crazy and this morning it seems just fine. I am very suspicious.

Wow Crunchy! That is great news! I hope that you continue to have good results!!!Crunchy, maybe this really IS the one. I sure hope so. I know all about that bed of nails thing. It's waiting for me every morning. It's nice to see a victory, at least once in a while. Are you completely off the prednisone? I hope you have met your match and that your symptoms remain minimum to gone.  It happened for my mom and I am praying for my day to come too.

Let us know how it goes.
I am soooo happy for you crunchy!  I really hope this is the med that works for you.  So far it sounds like you are heading on the right track.  Yay!
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