YAY!!!! I am a big girl once again!!!!! I drove today BY MYSELF WITHOUT DANNY for the first time since before Christmas 2006!!!!!!! Ok so it was only 5 minutes down the street to the doc office but I did it alone!!! I had no problems and it felt just fantastic!! I drove the truck!!! YAY!!!!!
So I had a great visit with my PCP. His P.A. is so sweet and we have actually become friends. She gave me a big hug when she saw me and said I looked great!! She also noticed that I did not have Danny with me!! I had to change my asthma meds since my advair went to a co-pay monthly. I have to use 2 different inhalers now and it is actually cheaper for me to do that lol. Stupid insurance. My doc explained it as advair is a convience since the 2 meds I need are in one inhaler and that is why it prolly went to . He gave me a month free of each of one of maintenance inhalers, a month free of my rescue inhaler, and an arthritis friendly inhaler for one of my maintenance inhalers. He said that one I would have problems using. But there is another one by a different company that works with the med I am on and has been cited for ease of use from the Arthritis Foundation. The other one has been rated very poorly by the AF. So that is a relief. I am weaning off the morphine!!!!! I now drop to 15mg for a month and then I can stop. He said you can stop it at 15mg but 30 is way too much to stop at. YAY!!!!! I have percs for bad weather days. All I really need is 2 of those a day when the weather is bad. He also gagve me something for when my leg spasms when I inject my mtx. He said that it is common that happens with long term IM injections. I have a huge bruise on my leg from my last shot because my muscle decided to spasm pretty badly. I am going to call my rheumy to see if I can switch to sub q injections.
So all in all it was a good visit!!! YAY!!! After months and months of yuk there is finally light at the end of the tunnel!
Great news!!! I am so happy to hear you are doing so well and will actually be getting off your pain meds, wonderful! I'd do the happy dance if I didn't think I'd break a hip or something!
GREAT NEWS GRAMMA!! I am so happy for you! Good, good news... Hi Liz, sounds like your going in the right direction. I'm so happy that you're feeling better and driving - whoppee. Last week I drove for the first time in months and I felt so free. I took an extra pain pill, put on my knee brace, hopped in the truck and took off. Only drove a couple of miles to the little mall but I was out by myself. I understand about the loss of freedom and it really angers me but not much we can do but get better. Lindy
Great news Liz! You go girl!
Fantastic!