Humira feels like a weekly reminder that I have an incurable autoimmune disease. That this is what my life is like now. That this is what I have to look forward to. And at times it’s depressing. I wish I didn’t have to be on medications but I know that this medication is my best…
This is the book I am reading this week. It’s the book that I am reading for my book club this month. I still have quite a bit to read so we will see if I can get it done by Sunday! I still have yet to finish The Way of Kings. It’s so interesting…
Traveling with Humira is a lot easier than I ever thought it was going to be. When I first had to fly with it I was pretty paranoid. I made sure to have a note from my doctor and everything. I also got a nifty little cooler back from Humira. It works well enough for…
This week I have finished Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan and started Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan. This is my second go through of the Wheel of Time series and I am listening to the audiobooks. They are SO GOOD! Like, ridiculously good. I put off listening to them for a long time.…
I finally have an answer to whether or not I can get Lasik eye surgery done. And the answer is that I can get it as long as my health has been stable for at least 6 months. I feel like this is a tricky question because what does stable mean? Does it mean that…
Hello everyone. This update is going to be a bit different. Because I had to stop the Autoimmune Protocol Diet unfortunately. My bowels this week pretty much had it. With this diet I was eating a lot of veggies and my colitis is currently not happy with that. So Thursday I ended up having to…
… I have Eczema. I got diagnosed with it on March 8th. I have been having problems with my skin again. I had wanted my Rheumatologist to just prescribe me some steroid cream for it but he said that I needed to go see my dermatologist or my PCP for my skin problems. So I…
Today marks my 14th day on the AIP diet. This diet has not been the easiest diet in the world. Some days are harder than others. What really makes it hard for me is the fact that I have to take my fructose malabsorption into account. And to take that into account that means I…
I have not read this book before. It is the book that my book club voted to read this month. The meeting is on Sunday and I still have like 100 pages to read! Which shouldn’t take me that long. I hope. But so far it’s a very interesting book wrote from a completely different…
What form of IBD do you have? On paper I have Ulcerative Colitis but my doctor has mentioned a couple of times that I probably have Inderterminate Colitis. So that’s pretty much what I identify as. There also isn’t a Inderterminate Colitis diagnostic code so that doesn’t help either. There was also that one time…