The steroids that I started taking last week have been doing some great things. My pain has been bearable. I was feeling so good that when I was on my way home from work on Friday, I just wanted to sing and dance.
When I was almost home, I received a message from my rheumatologist that my x-rays did not qualify for the good drugs. She will be mailing me a script for Methotrexate, which is the other drug that she explained to me. I should get it in the mail sometime this week.
Methotrexate has been used for rheumatoid arthritis for 25 years, so it has a good track record of being used. It's not the medication that I wanted, but hopefully it'll help. At least until my referral goes through to see another rheumatologist for a second opinion. Maybe then we can figure something out.
The new drug should take a few weeks to start working and a few months to have its full effect. This is starting to worry me as my pain is returning. It's not just my lower back and bum, but often down my whole right leg. The steroids were enough for the pain a week ago, but the pain seems to be increasing beyond what they're helping with. Not to mention that I need to start weening off my steroids by lowering 1 tablet each week. So those should end in about a month.
I have an appointment with a physiotherapist in about a week, so hopefully that will help. In the meantime, all I can do is keep praying for healing and doing what I can to relax my lower back.
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