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Tue-28-03-2017, 16:05 PM
I was reminded during last night's trip to the bathroom, that another side effect I've experienced with both Humira and Taltz is muscle cramps.
I need to jump out of bed and quickly find a position of relief or pull my foot against the cramp or jut my leg out sideways at weird angles to relieve
the muscle tension much like a Kung Fu fighter must do while warming up. I hope no one is watching not even God.
The result is sore muscles for a day or two.
The Taltz comes in a pen. There was no choice between a pen or syringe. The Taltz pen differs slightly from the Humira pen. The Taltz pen is clear,
has a triangular shaped bell on it's skin touching end, and the mechanism has a click at the start and another click signaling the injection has been completed.
I never experienced a pen failure with Humira. Both pens seem well designed and are easy to use.
I was extremely hesitant about self injecting until I watched a young girl on Youtube inject herself with Humira.
I told myself if that little kid can do it, so can I.
Oh yeah? LOL the first time I held that injection pen in my hand over my thigh, I had to watch that little girl inject herself another 6 times before I could pull the trigger so to speak.
My Lyme disease was a monster. It was triggered by my general practitioner giving me two injections at one time, one for Pneumonia and the second for Tetanus.
Normally I had tolerated injections without incident. That time the injections activated the Lyme spirochete that had been dormant for who knows what length of time.
If you read enough about Lyme disease, you know the researchers don't know enough about it to have a real cure for the patients who have been infected for more than
a few months. If Lyme disease is treated within the first month of infection with antibiotics (Doxycycline) the Lyme spirochete is killed in almost a 100% of the time.
In my case I don't know when I was infected. I work in the woods of Wisconsin but have traveled often to other high Lyme disease areas including Lyme Connecticut where the affliction was first noted by the medical world. I may have been infected years ago with Lyme and never knew it.
My experience with Lymes started with swollen knees . It was a disabling swelling that literally had me on my knees. My MD drained my knees several times in one year each time injecting Cortizone which brought relief for about 4 months.
To make a long story short, I was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease by a little ole country doctor in a small town in northern Wisconsin when I went to see if he would drain my swollen knees and give me a shot of Cortisone. It was that doctor who's protocol for swollen joints included testing for Lyme disease. He said I had it but could only prescribe one month's worth of Doxycycline. He advised that if my Lyme infection was older than 6 months the antibiotic probably wouldn't cure it. He told me to find a Lyme literate Dr. who was willing to prescribe the necessary long term antibiotic regimen NOT recognized by the American Medical Association. It took me months to find one and another 12 months and a dozen different meds and supplements to finally get "cured"
jml, your original question, am I cured . . . . . I think so, but I don't know for sure. There is no test yet to show if the Lyme disease is absent. I no longer have the swollen knees and aching joints similar as before.
The tests they have to determine IF YOU'VE BEEN INFECTED only measures those artifacts in your blood that indicate that your body has reacted to LYME disease NOT actually testing for the presence of Lyme itself.
My current state of health includes joint pain which I'm being told is Arthritis or Psoriatic Arthritis. I don't have the swelling as though it were Lymes. The Arthritis responds to regular Arthritis treatments including the Humira injections.
I think I'm Lyme free but can't prove it.
I need to jump out of bed and quickly find a position of relief or pull my foot against the cramp or jut my leg out sideways at weird angles to relieve
the muscle tension much like a Kung Fu fighter must do while warming up. I hope no one is watching not even God.
The result is sore muscles for a day or two.
The Taltz comes in a pen. There was no choice between a pen or syringe. The Taltz pen differs slightly from the Humira pen. The Taltz pen is clear,
has a triangular shaped bell on it's skin touching end, and the mechanism has a click at the start and another click signaling the injection has been completed.
I never experienced a pen failure with Humira. Both pens seem well designed and are easy to use.
I was extremely hesitant about self injecting until I watched a young girl on Youtube inject herself with Humira.
I told myself if that little kid can do it, so can I.
Oh yeah? LOL the first time I held that injection pen in my hand over my thigh, I had to watch that little girl inject herself another 6 times before I could pull the trigger so to speak.
My Lyme disease was a monster. It was triggered by my general practitioner giving me two injections at one time, one for Pneumonia and the second for Tetanus.
Normally I had tolerated injections without incident. That time the injections activated the Lyme spirochete that had been dormant for who knows what length of time.
If you read enough about Lyme disease, you know the researchers don't know enough about it to have a real cure for the patients who have been infected for more than
a few months. If Lyme disease is treated within the first month of infection with antibiotics (Doxycycline) the Lyme spirochete is killed in almost a 100% of the time.
In my case I don't know when I was infected. I work in the woods of Wisconsin but have traveled often to other high Lyme disease areas including Lyme Connecticut where the affliction was first noted by the medical world. I may have been infected years ago with Lyme and never knew it.
My experience with Lymes started with swollen knees . It was a disabling swelling that literally had me on my knees. My MD drained my knees several times in one year each time injecting Cortizone which brought relief for about 4 months.
To make a long story short, I was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease by a little ole country doctor in a small town in northern Wisconsin when I went to see if he would drain my swollen knees and give me a shot of Cortisone. It was that doctor who's protocol for swollen joints included testing for Lyme disease. He said I had it but could only prescribe one month's worth of Doxycycline. He advised that if my Lyme infection was older than 6 months the antibiotic probably wouldn't cure it. He told me to find a Lyme literate Dr. who was willing to prescribe the necessary long term antibiotic regimen NOT recognized by the American Medical Association. It took me months to find one and another 12 months and a dozen different meds and supplements to finally get "cured"
jml, your original question, am I cured . . . . . I think so, but I don't know for sure. There is no test yet to show if the Lyme disease is absent. I no longer have the swollen knees and aching joints similar as before.
The tests they have to determine IF YOU'VE BEEN INFECTED only measures those artifacts in your blood that indicate that your body has reacted to LYME disease NOT actually testing for the presence of Lyme itself.
My current state of health includes joint pain which I'm being told is Arthritis or Psoriatic Arthritis. I don't have the swelling as though it were Lymes. The Arthritis responds to regular Arthritis treatments including the Humira injections.
I think I'm Lyme free but can't prove it.