Having an undiagnosed chronic illness feels a little like playing Sherlock Holmes with your health. Months and years of symptoms and weirdness and issues pile up and you often don’t know what is going on until you finally get a diagnosis and everything just clicks. Hopefully. Sometimes it doesn’t, especially if you have concurrent or complicating issues or “co-morbidities” – […]

I was three weeks on 40 mg of prednisone before my flare symptoms returned, slowly and inconsistently, but enough that my doctor became very concerned. She’s understandably cautious about using steroids long term. When we’d first made our treatment plan, we’d discussed Stelara and Humira as two good options for biologics. But shortly after my first dose of Stelara, my […]