Brilliant news, Seenie. I am soooooooo happy for you.
Just thinking some more about this ....... whenever I've seen a complimentary therapist they always spend a while just holding, touching or sensing. I remember my accupuncturist explaining that a large part of diagnosis for her is observation including looking at skin colour, texture, noting odours, feeling for heat or cold etc. I think you had a very enlightened surgeon there Seenie.
Thank you for sharing your blog with me Seenie! It makes me more confident in my decision to go with the Methotrexate. It can be scary when you read all the side effects and your friends are saying all,you have to do is change your diet. But better safe then sorry. Xoxo thanks for your kind introductions and discussion with me today! You are a sweetie!
I am so glad to have read your story and to hear that other people have experience with awful feet. Up until a few weeks after starting Enbrel, I kept <jokingly> telling my fellow Nursey friends that I would pay the lowest bidder to chop my feet off. I was having to call off from work because I couldn't stand to be on my feet more than 5 minutes, let alone for my 12 hour shifts. I am so glad that you are also finding some relief with the Enbrel!
Hi, Medic_chick
Oh, I know the feeling that you mean. I told the foot surgeon exactly that when he said that trying to repair my feet would be difficult, risky and have a dicey prognosis. I said "I’d be perfectly happy for you to take my feet off and install blades like what’s-his-name-Bladerunner. The man was obviously up with the gossip-nes, and clearly had a sense of humour: without missing a beat he said “Oh no, I’d never do that because I’d be afraid that you might shoot your topmodel lover through the bathroom door.” Really, though, part of me wasn’t joking.
I had two kinds of pain in my feet: inflammation and damage. Before Enbrel, I could walk or stand for about five minutes. Now, it’s more like ten, I figure because the inflammation pain is down and it’s mostly damage pain. Ten minutes is still not long enough to do anything that normal people need to walk for.
For me,inflammation pain felt like a hot pressure in the middle of my feet. Apparently I had a lot of bone edema. I am left with five joints (ten surfaces) that are bone-on-bone in each midfoot. Fortunately, I’m retired, but I was a classroom teacher who used to be on her feet all day every day.