I was given temporary hope on this post from Warm Socks at Infinity-itis (Sorry, I can’t find the infinity symbol anywhere) on methotrexate side effects.  Remicade Dream commented that she always had a mental fog on MTX day.  Ahah, I thought, my problems of extreme dippyness (and fatigue) this week must have been caused by my increase in methotrexate. 

I felt better for a minute – hurrah, all I have to do is blame the meds. 

Then I realised the horrible truth – I take my m-m-m-m-methotrexate on a M-M-M-M-Monday and I was still being just as dippy yesterday … I actually forgot to go to a client meeting! ( Thankfully she’s a nice person and happens to work in the next-door office, so a quick phonecall from here and I was there in a flash.) 

Hubby has now identified the true root of the matter – I’m suffering from Dippy Penguin Syndrome.  Unfortunately it is, as yet, incurable. 

I also tend toward dippitude, but methotrexate made me a whole lot dippier.  I took it only for three months a year or so ago, and the stuff made me so foggy and ill — for days after dosing — that I was begging my doctor to take me off of it.  I’ve honestly never felt so awful in my life — and of course, it wasn’t doing a thing for the rheuma, either.  He took pity on me, finally, and switched me to Arava.  It hasn’t done much for the rheuma that I can FEEL — my flares are slowly getting worse — but with Arava, I’ve had no more inexplicable illness, no more foggy-headedness, and no more being completely flattened with the “blehs” as soon as I got up in the morning.  Unfortunately, the switchover didn’t do a thing to improve my natural dippitude, but I didn’t really expect it to…

I love the word dippitude, by the way; I shall add it to my dictionary. ; o)

Well the MTX is working for my RA – it’s just, perhaps, not doing an awful lot for my brain!  I’m really sorry nothing’s working so well for your RA … but hurrah for having the brain back.  I wonder when I’ll get mine back?  I have got to organise a meal out for my mum’s 70th birthday and I’m wondering how many completely stupid things I’ll do on the way.  It’s only for five of us – it SHOULDN’T be hard!!!  Probably book it for the wrong day! 

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My name is not Pollyanna and I'm not a penguin.  If you'd not worked out the last bit you should probably stop reading this and seek out a psychologist. 

This is a blog about me and rheumatoid arthritis - sounds like fun, huh?  Well I'm hoping it'll be a bit more fun than it sounds - hence the Pollyanna part.  I'm going to try to stay positive about it and play 'Pollyanna's glad game' - finding reasons to be cheerful basically. 

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