Daily Overview: Woke up feeling pretty good. Took tons of pills. Feeling good lasted until I walked from the parking garage to work. My left foot's fifth metatarsal joint acted up again with sharp pains plus stings going over my foot. Something that has never happen before until recently. Lunch felt like this...The pain was dulled by codeine but the disease was thriving. Just after 3pm while sitting in my chair, my foot starting acting up with pain and stings over my foot. Crazy how I'm keeping track of a simple walk to the parking garage. I barely walk during the day and it's still a struggle. What the @#$*&^$. I'm 33 and like to be active.
Today is the return to taking more medication. The result of my phone call with my doctor was three additional prescriptions to the three I'm currently on. So here's the list.
1. IBUPROFEN 600mg (3 pills a day)
2. OMEPRAZOLE 20mg (1 pill a day to coat my stomach for #1)
3. HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE 200mg (2 pills a day)
4. METHOTREXATE 2.5mg (6 pills on one day of the week)
5. FOLIC ACID 1mg (1 pill a day due to taking #4)
6. APAP/CODEINE 300-30mg (when needed. currently take 2 pills twice a day)
My doctor put me back on Methotrexate along with Folic Acid. I had been on that with my previous RA doctor until I got a bad liver test in late March of this year. I really hope it helps again. Also I got to choose to not go back on prednisone and got apap/codeine instead. I have never taken it before. Definitely seems very different. More about the pain rather than the inflammation. Not going to judge it yet. Too soon to tell.
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