Well, the take-with-food-or-milk bit has helped considerably with the Imuran side effects. I've had some mild stomach discomfort, but nothing even approaching the 4am Saturday please-kill-me-now cramps. And I think the Imuran's working, too. We're having another week of miserable thunderstormy weather (very very bad for creaky old fogies like me). Today my right middle finger (the worst so far) was a little twingey, but that's the most trouble I've had since starting the Imuran. I've taken only a couple of doses of Advil in the last two weeks, and haven't had to hit the Tramadol at all. (Compare this to 2400 mg daily of Advil, plus Tramadol at least a couple of times a week, and sometimes more frequently, in the couple of months before Imuran.)
And now that I've bored my no readers (reminds me of a silly joke: what's yellow and invisible? No bananas) to no end with whining about my pain, here's an interesting tidbit: A new study shows that rheumatoid arthritis patients have reduced life expectancy compared to their same-sex, non-RA siblings, while simultaneously showing a 40 percent lower rate of cancer-related death.
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