On Monday, I called the rheumy office to see if my doctor answer my questions. She said that I should continue with my other drugs since the new one takes time to start working. Also my blood tests will need to be every month.
I picked up my pills that morning but was told to start taking them at night. They have a complicated dosing where I add a pill every week until I take 2 in the morning and 2 at night. (Then continue with that dose.) The chemist told me to start at night because the medicine often has the effect of making you spacey. She said it shouldn't make you drowsy, though. So far that doesn't seem to be the case. Maybe it's just because of my sleeping issues, but it knocks me out and it's been messing with my sleeping even more. Hopefully my body will get used to the drug and that will stop.
But reading the handout that the chemist gave me about the drugs, I've discovered that I can't take aspirin. I already also can't take ibuprofen because that's an anti-inflammatory and I'm taking anti-inflammatory meds already. So I'm thanking God that paracetamol exists. I never heard of it until I came to Australia (although wikipedia tells me that's what's in Tylenol but it has a different name in the US) but it's sort of the default pain killer here. I'm so glad because I think I'm coming down with a cold so I'll be wanting my cold medications!
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