My specialist asked if I was a drinker before starting me on RA meds, and when I responded in the negative, he said good.
So I don't drink at all, but occasionally I'd really like to have just one glass of wine, I really miss it with a risotto especially.
Alcohol can cause flushing, some people like my mum get a red chest and nose, ( highly vascularised areas) depending how translucent your skin is, how fair you are determines how obvious it is to others. tllwd is right re- meds and hot flashes
I do get hot flashes with my methotrexate, only on the first night that I inject, and I'm on Blood pressure meds too. I get so overheated in bed on chemo nights that I usually get up and change my jammies, unless I have slept through. It's annoying, I now place a spare pair of pjs in my bedside draws because my daughter still sleeps in my bed, and I don't want to wake her up going through my tallboy draws in the dark.
Baby powder helps though, just be sure that it's talc free.
I also find using underarm antiperspirant *rexona* powder fresh sprayed all over upper body straight after shower helps too, especially around the back, neck, boob ( sorry guys- *blush*) and groin area which is exactly where you need it. It's unhealthy to do this everyday, so I only do it on chemo nights to help keep me dry
Keep water bottle next to bed, very important to keep hydrated with methotrexate to take care of kidneys.
( apologies in advance if this is TMI for some, but honestly, the hot flashes with certain RA and even other meds can be really annoying, especially in the middle of the night and it's freezing cold . Last thing you want is to change out of saturated clothes into dry clothes in the middle of a Ballarat winter at 2am in the morning. Not fun! ) The deodorant helps alot, but you should wash it off in the morning, even after showering the night before to wash off deodorants aluminium +chemicals and toxins you've sweated out from chemo during sleep . Very important as Methotrexate is cytotoxic, even in small doses.
All RA meds are fairly toxic so very important to wash the chemicals we excrete off our skin at least once a day.
I can't imagine these chemicals would be great for our skin, mixed with our own perspiration, body salts which ends up concentrated on our body's largest organ. Our skin.
So when you are on RA drugs, no shower skipping guys- sorry
It's genuinely hazardous.
Yum Jasin, I'd love a spit roast, and haven't enjoyed one for years, since I lived in Sydney.
I think the community would have been very happy with you for doing this. You have magpie friends too. So do we, and we feed them oats. Not every day though.
My sook of a cat is an indoors only pet, but he's utterly terrified of magpies, all birds in fact, but especially Maggie's, so he watches us feeding them through the door and makes this strange sound , it's hilarious, but very wierd. He's a strange cat.
Sophia, nothing better than catching up with old friends, I'm looking forward to this when we go to Sydney in the new year.
Mum and stepdad will babysit.
"Yay"
Last time we went to Sydney my beautiful mum put on this amazing lunch for my friends and I, but I think we'll be meeting up at a club , because we have a few more coming this time, hopefully something with a live band and a nice risotto.
I may even break the chemo rules and have a couple of drinks when I arrive, then sit on lemon lime bitters. Won't be a late afternoon.
Ps, I am really pleased with Humira the RA drug, ( biologics) and whilst it's made a big difference, pain wise, I still get lethargic with RA.
It's getting better though, or I'm learning to cope with it, unsure, because I think dealing with it becomes our new normal, so ..... unsure really if lethargy is improving or not.
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"Yay"