today was the end of week 22 of self injection, which if you count the 4 weeks of IV high-dose, makes it 26 weeks, which is halfway through the year.\u00c2\u00a0 I kind of think of them as two different events.\u00c2\u00a0 the 4 weeks (which was really 6 weeks).\u00c2\u00a0 and the 48 weeks, which is actually going to be closer to 55 weeks, with all of the breaks and drug holidays i have had to take to let my body heal.\u00c2\u00a0 The one number that is undeniable is I have exactly six months left.\u00c2\u00a0 Half a year.\u00c2\u00a0 And that going forward it just gets less.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m at the top of the hill, and everything is downhill from here<\/p>\n
despite that uplifting bit of cliche’d symbolism, i’m feeling pretty shitty right now.\u00c2\u00a0 my body is really falling apart.\u00c2\u00a0 i strained my right bicep, and the interferon interferes with all of my healing processes.\u00c2\u00a0 So strain not healing, and as i tweak it by accident it gets worse, so now i think i’m going to have to put it in a sling to protect it.\u00c2\u00a0 more hassle.\u00c2\u00a0 more atrophy.<\/p>\n
my fingers are falling apart. more lesions, and split skin.\u00c2\u00a0 that wont heal.\u00c2\u00a0 same with my face (eyes and mouth)<\/p>\n
the weirdest is that i chipped a tooth at the front of my mouth sometime about 48hrs ago.\u00c2\u00a0 probably in my sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 it was a fake tooth – a porcelain covered gold crown from a root canal, so the good news is that the tooth is long dead and i don’t have to worry about that.\u00c2\u00a0 the bad news is that the break created this sharp hook like protuberance that is snagging and cutting my tongue when i talk or eat.\u00c2\u00a0 so not so much talking or eating until i can get into my dentist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
today was the end of week 22 of self injection, which if you count the 4 weeks of IV high-dose, makes it 26 weeks, which is halfway through the year.\u00c2\u00a0 I kind of think of them as two different events.\u00c2\u00a0 the 4 weeks (which was really 6 weeks).\u00c2\u00a0 and the 48 weeks, which is actually … Continue reading New Side Effects<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[60,13],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-ifn","tag-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}