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Warnings for Xeljanz
There is so much else to grab your attention these days it might have been easy to miss the FDA’s recent safety warnings for Pfizer’s JAK inhibitor, Xeljanz, which has been approved for RA patients as...
View ArticleFinally – Help for Fatigue
For many RA and PsA patients (myself included) fatigue is a major complaint. I know that one of the first signs that a treatment plan was not working as well as it had been previously was the onset of...
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Vaccination Complete
Yesterday my husband and I received our second #Moderna vax, right on schedule four weeks after we got our first round. Other than a sore arm for me, we’ve not (yet) had any adverse side effects. The...
View ArticleWinter storm, TMJ and RA
You may have seen the news that we had a major winter storm in Texas in mid-February. I was lucky in that I lost power for a few days (I camped out in a warm hotel room), but was otherwise unscathed....
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Actually SEE patients?
I’m all for telehealth visits. It’s been a lifeline during the pandemic and is truly convenient for those who have issues traveling to a doctor’s office. But at some point, doctors actually need to...
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Is beauty skin deep?
In the search for a treatment for my TMJ issues, I’ve had some 3-D X-rays taken. These are not only of my teeth/jaw area but of my entire head. It’s weird seeing your skull. What do you think? Change...
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When you don’t want the answer
So I’ve completed my third visit in search of answers for my TMJ situation. While I’ve had TMJ issues my entire life, they haven’t really bothered me. I’ve always been able to “unlock” my jaw when it...
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My “Insomnia Watch” Broke
Those of us who wake up at weird times in the middle of the night will understand what an “insomnia watch” is. It’s that timepiece you look at to try to figure out if it’s worth trying to go back to...
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And, so …
There are two things to know: seronegative RA is hard to quantify and I haven’t been on a “formal” treatment plan since November 2019. The third thing to know is that I am a strong proponent of...
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And then there’s this
It’s been 10 days and I’ve been trying to figure out how to write this post. Image from MedicineNet Last November I had a TIA (“mini stroke”) that I wrote about here. At that time, the most exciting...
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