The RA rodeo!

I am up at this ungodly hour flared up to beat the band. Icing my hot and swollen left wrist and hand in an attempt toward relief and trying to pass the time since sleep seems to be a distant memory. I am looking forward to utter exhaustion and the fog of half hearted sleep I may get if Im lucky. Thank God tomorrow is Saturday!

I was reading RA guys blog and happened across his becoming visible post. It really is inspiring (or I could just be really rummy) and I think instead of telling people I have RA from now on and being met with blank stares and stories of arthritic aches by people and comments about my age instead I will just tell them I was injured riding a bull named Systemic Disease.

www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/05/on-becoming-visible/

I am doing better. Got about 4 hours of sleep this morning finally and I felt better today and managed to move about some and not sit all day. Here's to hoping tonight is better as well. It's like a horror movie with me and RA I swear it always gets worse at night when Im having a flare.

Hope you all are well and having a good weekend. -Don

Nights are the worst. I end up sleeping on the couch a lot so I don't wake up my husband.

I hope you're having a good day, Don.

Hope you're feeling better, I often suffer from insomnia due to the aches and pains but recently my rheumy put me on 5 mg of Endep. Its a really old treatment for depression but at much higher concentrations, anyway its side effect is sleepiness and if I take it half an hourbeofre I want to sleep it knocks me out. Now some nights I still wake but I am now sleeping a lot more hours than i was. Might be worth enquiring about plus it numbs your nerve endings so is suppose to help with pain too.
Best wishes, golitho