I really do love Humira. It has helped me huge crazy lots. All the other medications took me from 10% of normal to 70% of normal, which is pretty great. But Humira has brought me to 95-100% of normal. And I am so grateful!

On the downside … the injections. My rheumy showed me the first time. Two weeks later when it was up to me, I didn’t remember how the pen worked. I ended up with a massive bruise, and a slightly bruised ego too. And after a few injections, I discovered that injecting into my belly is not for me. After some hints and tricks from another RA patient, I felt like Humira injections were mastered. And everything has been just ducky for nearly a year.

Today I had a first though … so I thought I’d share. Just because.

I was in the middle of cooking this afternoon and I realized that I had twice ignored my iPhone reminders for my injection. I was afraid I’d forget my dose. So I quick ran upstairs for a bandaid and grabbed my supplies (alcohol swab, injector pen, etc.). In the middle of this cooking endeavor, I stopped to do my injection.

Probably I shouldn’t have been rushing. Probably I should have stuck to my usual schedule. But either way … I had a little incident.

When I injected the Humira today I must have hit a blood vessel because I had seriously spurting blood for about 30 seconds. That’s never happened before. It was a little freaky … maybe even a bit scary. Thankfully the blood clotted pretty quickly. And hopefully I won’t have much of a bruise. Next time I will look for blood vessels close the surface of my skin …

All in the fun day of an RA patient!

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