Steroids free for 3 days...

My doctor advised me to stop taking steroids (Prednisone) after taking half of a 5mg pill for a week.

So, the first time that I took half a pill, my body was feeling a little bit achy... maybe because it is also around the time that I should be getting my period, but since I am in Depo, I wasn't having it, and my body, was just in turmoil. So I need to go back to a week of drinking a whole pill like I used to.

 I did went back to a whole 5mg pill for a work, and the week after I went to the half pill that was advised by my new doctor (My former doctor is already done with her internship, I assumed), and I did the half pill for a week.

Today marks the 3rd day of my "no steroids" day. I think I will stop counting when I lost track of it. There aren't many or major changes that happened. I notice that my fingers at the moment, 09/19/12 1:30pm, that my fingers on my right hand, only the pointer and middle finger, is a bit swollen on the first joints. My right foot, just a few inches from the ball of my feet, is hurting since last week, and I don't think it is part of the "no steroids" side effects. But if it become unbearable, I will drink ibuprofen. But hopefully, it's just caused I wore slippers too much the past month.

I am happy, that right now, I am on my way to better health and hopefully, will be able to have my baby soon... :) I am old you know, and my biological clock is ticking, and my baby envy at full mode!

But as for now... Yey!! One less pill a day!!!

Rant...

Why does Lupus medicine who affects women, most of the time, cause women to look less of a woman?

Why lupus sucks?
Let me count the ways..

1. it's a chronic disease
2. it affects women most of the time
3. it affects around the age of puberty and before menopause
4. your childbearing years are cut short because you have to deal with Lupus most of the tim
5. your medicine cause constipation, diarrhea, pimples and weight gain (really, weight gain and pimples???)
6. your hair starts falling off and baby hair grows, but they stay baby hair most of the time (in my previous post, check out my lupus hair, looks like a  mohawk or new born baby hair it stands on its end most of the time)
7. it gives you facial rashes (i already have humongous pimple man!!!)

 that is all i could think of right now tho.. maybe soon i will have some more...


UGH LUPUS! I HATE YOU WITH PASSION!
 
 
 
  

It's hard...

I think my poor eyesight is getting worse by the minute because of all this medicine and side-effects it cause. I can't see that much anymore. I mean, I do have poor eyesight, but this hasn't been this bad before. Need to have my eyes checked again.

My poor arms are still sore from all the blood samples they have to take from the 3 different hospitals I was in. Not only did it suffer almost every hours of blood pressure check-ups and heart monitor clips on my finger, it's bruised and have lots of puncture marks. I look like an effin addict. And on both inner elbow pit. (I searched what it is called without going scientific and it is called an "elbow pit", according to urbandictionary.com)

Since I have been back from the hospital I sense a weird cramping my by knee pit. If I try to walk a little bit faster, it locks it self and I feel cramped. But it will be gone in a few seconds. It's so weird. I think I need to talk to my doctor about it. Maybe, its a weird side-effect of one of the medicine I am taking. Huff... I'm  tired... :( I need to go to sleep. No energy yet. And I still have that weird taste in my mouth that I had when I was in the hospital. I hope it's not something really bad.