KitchenKhemist
Active Member
The past week has been hell...
I gues it started several weeks ago, when my wife had nasty headaches and slight fevers. The following week, she got a scaly rash on her face and forearms and swelled like she was having an allergic reaction. This week, I watched her experience pain like I've never seen. She couldn't move. She couldn't even lay still without severe pain. We almost had to cut her wedding/engagement rings off due to swelling. I had to saty home from work and help her to and from the bathroom. The dickhead doctor she went to thought she was pill shopping and gave her a scrip for potassium. I tried Ibuprofin, acetametophine, asprin, various NSAIDS, nothing worked.....except marijuana. Unfortunately, all I could get my hands on at the moment was schwag as Med MJ is not yet legal in my state and everyone I know is in veg or early flower, but it took the edge waaaay off. After seeing another doctor who told us she was experiencing all the signs of systemic lupus (now confirmed), she was prescribed some crazy pain pills I've never heard of...those didn't work either....we continued with the MJ regimen, with excedrine PM to "sleep it away." She's doing better now. Her flare is almost over. We're still learning alot about this awful disease.
Does anyone else out there have any helpful advice/strain specifics to help when it returns? I can't stand to watch my wife in such pain. She often said she wanted to rip her knees and elbows off. I can't imagine pain of that caliber for 48 hours.
I gues it started several weeks ago, when my wife had nasty headaches and slight fevers. The following week, she got a scaly rash on her face and forearms and swelled like she was having an allergic reaction. This week, I watched her experience pain like I've never seen. She couldn't move. She couldn't even lay still without severe pain. We almost had to cut her wedding/engagement rings off due to swelling. I had to saty home from work and help her to and from the bathroom. The dickhead doctor she went to thought she was pill shopping and gave her a scrip for potassium. I tried Ibuprofin, acetametophine, asprin, various NSAIDS, nothing worked.....except marijuana. Unfortunately, all I could get my hands on at the moment was schwag as Med MJ is not yet legal in my state and everyone I know is in veg or early flower, but it took the edge waaaay off. After seeing another doctor who told us she was experiencing all the signs of systemic lupus (now confirmed), she was prescribed some crazy pain pills I've never heard of...those didn't work either....we continued with the MJ regimen, with excedrine PM to "sleep it away." She's doing better now. Her flare is almost over. We're still learning alot about this awful disease.
Does anyone else out there have any helpful advice/strain specifics to help when it returns? I can't stand to watch my wife in such pain. She often said she wanted to rip her knees and elbows off. I can't imagine pain of that caliber for 48 hours.
