hi friends, Saw my Rheumatologist Mon. I told her I have become able to do many things I have avoided for 2 years. My mobility is better and I am so thenkful. I could tell she felt relieved that the Enbrel injections are working. I didn't have an overnight miricle, it was very gradual. You know those progress sheets you feel out at the doctors office? On the pain scale i went from 7.5 to 6.5. Instead of being in pain 75% of the time, now I am only in pain a little more than half of the time.
I want to ask all of you who have taken Enbrel injections if you have experienced nausea or headaches/ migraines?
So glad to hear that. I think I am headed to Enbrel soon but am resistant because I keep thinking I am getting better on the Mtx when I have a couple of good days. only to be followed by very bad days. I hope the side effects get better for you!
Happy Friday to everyone ! I will be starting Enbrel soon and will let you know my side effects. Glad you are feeling better !
=) Still in a lot of pain, but better. Yes to nausea.
Yvonne, I want you (actually I want EVERYONE) to click on your profile and reread your posts going back to early last spring. What a wonderful journey and message of hope (and inspiration) for all of us..... Yeah you prolly have a ways to get to be where you want we all do....
But answer me this do you have the energy to kick your kids a** yet? They deserve/need it!!!!!!
I just went 14 days with out (I shoot every 5) Enbrel. Maybe I have/had some side effects....... Go without for a while, you won't even think about it....................
Sometimes I wake up and think to myself, I'm not in so much pain I want to go back to sleep. I am able to take a shower without my husband being close to the bathroom incase I get too tired to step out of the shower by myself. Even though I still have sausage fingers and toes ( I hate that discripton) I don't feel like it's as noticeable. I still have scalp psoriasis but it's less severe now. My neck is painful and the Rhuem. prescribed methocarbanol, I hesitate to use it though cause I am taking ambien for sleep and oxycodone for pain, I read methocarbanol can increase the level of effect. Shouldn't my pharmacist have told me if it was a problem?
They are supposed to.
Since my heritage is hispanic, my Rheumy calls mine "chorizo toes and fingers".
Once you start getting control like you are, they can start playing with your NSAID to rurn your sausage to bacon. (or chorizo to tocinco) It took six before we found one. Also as you develop the confidence to get of the heavier narcos (or narcos altogether) those things will improve.
Hi...I've never tried it but have read about it. I had to go off of Mtx...too many side effects so I'm looking for another possible option before my next doctor appointment.
You're feeling some improvement....that's great ! Have you had many side effects from Enbrel ? I know I had headaches on Mtx and I never get headaches unless I'm sick.
I get migraines from biologics. Not fun. At the suggestion of my doctor, I take high dose B2 every day, and it seems to work to stave off migraines, or at least decrease their severity.
I have to ask my dr. when will mine improve.
tntlamb said:
Once you start getting control like you are, they can start playing with your NSAID to rurn your sausage to bacon. (or chorizo to tocinco) It took six before we found one. Also as you develop the confidence to get of the heavier narcos (or narcos altogether) those things will improve.
I owe my Lupus-Like Syndrome from the Embrel. Has anyone else?
Dini said:
Hi...I've never tried it but have read about it. I had to go off of Mtx...too many side effects so I'm looking for another possible option before my next doctor appointment.
You're feeling some improvement....that's great ! Have you had many side effects from Enbrel ? I know I had headaches on Mtx and I never get headaches unless I'm sick.
that is wonderful!