Ok, as you know from my last post, things started getting a little rough a couple of weeks ago. About three or four weeks ago, I started having chest pains like my rib cage was crushing everything around it. I stopped eating, I was throwing up, in pain constantly, not sleeping, moody, and extremely depressed. I ended up going to a family doctor where he took an x-ray, blood test, and popped every bone in my whole 96 pound body, which scared me. Haha
Come to find out, the x-ray showed I have costochondritis, which is inflamation under my rib cage. However, my doctor wants my gastroenterologist's opinion before diagnosing me with another health problem. The blood test on the hand wasn't very well. I am extremely low in blood again, resulting in a blood transfusion on Monday, the day I go to my gastroenterologist appointment. Due to having two blood disorders, I guess this is going to be something I will have to deal with the rest of my life.
So, the $1,089.00 Humira injections I was told I needed finally arrived last week. Once the at home nurse came to my house yesterday, she started showing me how to use this injection medicine. I was given not one, not two, not three, but FOUR shots in my legs within 40 minutes. I just can't seem to understand why I was given four shots all at one time. Can you say overdose?
After I was given the shots, I was them informed that next week, I will be giving myself three shots at one. Then two shots the following week, then one shot every two weeks after that. I was also informed that this medication can also cause tuberculosis, cancer, infections, internal and external bleeding, rashes, weakness, and weight loss. Really?
Three hours after the medication shots yesterday, I started feeling really weak and couldn't stand up at work. Soon after, I started getting sick to my stomach. I ended up leaving work early and came home to rest. This morning, I woke up to find four huge bruises on my legs from the shots. I was still feeling weak but not nearly as bad as yesterday and I actually made it through a full day of work. Could this really be a start to curing Crohn's Disease?
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