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I’d much rather be talking about Office Space Flare! Instead, I had a flare up of my back. I suppose I should have seen it coming. I’ve been pushing myself too much for a long time now. I especially did too much over the holidays. Since my diagnosis a year and a half ago, I have tried to pay attention to my body more and one of the signs of a flare (for me) is first feeling like I am coming down with a cold or something. It feels like mild flu-like symptoms, run-down, exhausted, maybe a scratchy throat and swollen glands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am thinking about this saying:<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nWell, my body picked it for me. I kept pushing it. We hosted A LOT during the holidays. And then I took it upon myself to clean like a crazy person before and afterwards. Not listening to my body. Then the weekend of New Year’s Eve my back decided it was time for me to rest. SIGH.<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nI have been trying to do the usual things for my back: stretching, gentle yoga, walking, Advil, Tylenol, muscle relaxers, heating pad, ice, chiropractor and now prednisone. Yay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So far I am pretty ho-hum about my new medication. I’m taking a biosimilar of Humira every other week. I don’t have any side effects that I can tell. But I also don’t see that it’s something magical either. I have a follow-up appointment with my rheumatologist in a few weeks. I am hoping I am not going to be on the Ferris wheel ride of trying new medications endlessly…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n Needless to say, I am disappointed with how my new year started. I was feeling more positive about things in general and had even started doing some slow jog\/walking on the treadmill here and there when I felt like my body could handle it. I am crossing my fingers this is just a small bump in the road that will resolve quickly! My goals for 2024 are centered around healing. So….come on 2024! Get back on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hope you had a better start to 2024!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’d much rather be talking about Office Space Flare! Instead, I had a flare up of my back. I suppose I should have seen it coming. I’ve been pushing myself too much for a long time now. I especially did too much over the holidays. Since my diagnosis a year and a half ago, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[10375,8413,2022,1683,2152,2234,10376,10392,10424],"tags":[10344,10417,2162,10452,1606,5355,10362,10423],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62598,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62587\/revisions\/62598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n