Doctor update

okay, well that was a bit of an emotional morning. jeff came with me to the doctor (thanks jeff!) and the doctor thinks i'm in the middle of a major flare. he says we were suppressing all this with the meds before and i'm not on enough prednisone to control it. i thought i might be having a reaction to the prednisone and he would say stop, which would stop all baby plans, but it was just the opposite - phew! i cried when i found that out, i guess because i was relieved. so i'm going up to 50mg a day from 15mg for the next two weeks to suppress the flare. then we'll see what is next. he wants to restart the Enbrel, but then jeff and i have to decide if we want an Enbrel baby or not. there isn't good enough evidence either way of whether or not that is safe, but the high risk OB would prefer that i'm not on it. the doctor says my labwork matches up with my symptoms and agrees that i'm swollen all over. a friend told me last night that my face is swollen and i thought that was because of the prednisone too, but the doctor feels it is part of the flare. who knew my cheeks could get even bigger???

the take home message from today is that we have to wait several more months before trying to get pregnant :( the doctor was very supportive today and feels that we'll be able to get this under control rather quickly. he said i should rest this weekend and not do anything crazy. i anticipate that i'll feel great if i'm taking 50mg a day...no pain! no sleep either though, but we'll see.