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Cindy Quiroz
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Name: Cindy
Quiroz
Chatroom nickname: CindyQ
Age: 40 (waah)
Gender: female
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Type of Arthritis: Rheumatoid Arthritis (and the usual accompanying
fibromyalgia, depression, etc., etc. thrown in just for fun...)
Medications: Just started Remicade, Celebrex, Sertraline, Xanax,
Methotrexate, Methodose, Fosamax
Surgeries: Left hip pinned after broken in an auto accident four
years ago.
Hobbies: Reading, writing, doing as much as I can with my 13-year-old
red-headed son, Justin...who is my favorite person in the whole world...
Email address: cindy_lmq@hotmail.com
ICQ#: ? Compu-illiterate..sorry..
AOL Instant Messenger ID: Uh - no.
Other form of online contact: Uh, sorry...none.
Other stuff: I just started Remicade this month (Nov, 2000) - today,
(11-21) was my second infusion. I don't know how or why, but after my first
infusion, for about five days, I was walking on air! I mean - I felt great!
I felt like I had just awoken from a 10+ year BAD DREAM, which is how long
(about) I've had RA. It sort of waned after the fifth day and then I got all
achey and sick again - but I still felt more mobile and I remained on a
lower dose of that evil drug Prednisone. I'm hoping tomorrow (11-22-00)
finds me feeling great again, and that this drug continues to do the job.
(Please, oh please oh please God, let it be...) In the meantime, I have a
LONG way to go, as I gained an obscene amount of weight while I was off my
feet, waiting (and waiting and waiting) for my hip to heal after the auto
accident and surgery. You know how it is on Prednisone - NOTHING heals
normally. And that meant I was sedentary, and getting huger and huger, for
two plus years. I want to, need to, must lose this weight - and getting off
the Prednisone seems to be a key. If this Remicade keeps working, and if I
can just pull myself together mentally and emotionally, maybe, just maybe, I
can go to my son's eighth grade graduation this year without humiliating
him...maybe I can be the mom I always thought I would be - but haven't come
near to yet. My whole future seems to be dependent on a drug...something
about that makes me feel really uneasy. I'd love to talk to other Remicade
users - no - I'd love to talk to all of my arthritic brothers and sisters!
Love you all - I think together "we shall overcome"!!!
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