i am having a flare up. this means, no exercise for me for a few days.

i was hurting yesterday, but i figured it was because my enbrel prescription got held up. i usually give myself my shot on monday morning, but as of 8:30 p.m. yesterday it still hadn’t arrived at my pharmacy. the pharmacist was great about it, though, and called the various pharmacies in the area and found a different kind of enbrel for me. instead of using a syringe, it was an epipen. for the first time in a long time, i couldn’t inject myself. maybe it was the epipen, or maybe it was that i couldn’t see the needle, but something about it made me unable to use it myself. so my wonderful husband, who normally can’t watch me inject myself, had to give me my medicine.

i thought i’d feel much better today, as i normally do after taking my enbrel, but i’m feeling just as bad, if not worse. my fingers and knees ache, and my knees are so swollen i can’t even see my kneecaps!

so now, more than anything i’m afraid i’ll gain weight because i can’t exercise right now and risk aggravating things. blah. and i was just getting a little more into exercising!