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> > Harvey,
> > How are you doing?  Do you think the med is kicking in?  I think it has
> > been a few weeks hasn't it?

> > Thinking of you.

> > Kelly

> Ohhh, I keep getting into so much trouble with the program but I do feel
> better.  A person is not suppose to change anything or take any new medicine
> or change the amounts of medicine a person takes.   They want to know what
> there medicine is doing with my body and nothing else.

>    Ok,,,,ok,,, I understand that but I have this catch 22 that I deal
> with,,,,, prednisone.  A person can not take 10 mg or more and be in the
> program.   At the very start I was living on pred. and Naprosyn while I
> lived through 30 days of getting Enbril out of my system.  I was taking 10
> mg at the very start....only my RD kept me in.   Then,,,, when I was feeling
> better,,, I lowered the pred to 7.5 because the more pred I take the worse
> my shingles are.   The lady got soooo mad at me that I was nearly washed out
> again  because I changed an amount of anything I take.  I can take being
> chewed out as well as the next guy but she went on and on and on.   I
> finally put my hand up and said,,,, I fully understand your point and
> nothing I could say would change the fact that I changed the amount of
> something I take,,,, can we move on now?
>      The shots I take are a pretty big shot,,,,,two of them.   It seemed to
> me that she gave them to me a little fast which hurts like hell.   I asked
> her when I was going to be able to give myself my shots or shot.  Her
> eyebrows went up and I thought she was going to start in on me again....LOL
> I just smiled at her  and she said,,,, soon.
>    I know that they are building up the medicine in my system but what I
> have not told them,,,,,,,, is that I have started to itch in my lower back
> like I did with Remicade.   I think it will be OK when I cut back to one
> shot every two weeks.   So it goes.
> Harv