Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Third Nipple

Well, my third nipple (as my daughter calls it) is back, it’s actually another lesion.  I went to my Rheumatologist to finally start treament for my (what they are now calling) breast disease on Tuesday and it wasn’t there.  And as of Tuesday night it was already appearing.  I already had an appointment scheduled Wednesday with my breast surgeon so I had her check it out and she wanted me to go see my rheuma (my new shortened word) right away since I had just started this heavy treatment (more on that later).  So I was able to get back into him on Friday and his first comment was “yea, that’s what granulomatous is!”
But my biggest concern in going back to him was the fact that he originally couldn’t treat if I had any active lesions.  And since we had just started treatment and now one was starting I was scared we would have to stop treatment.  Thank the Lord I don’t have to.  He said that at least when I started it (for one dose) that I had no lesions and as of now it hasn’t “broken open” so we are good.  And if we had to stop treatment for every time I got one, we would never be able to treat me. 
Treatment right now will consist of a low dose of Prednisone/steroids for six weeks until the main drug kicks in. (Though I am on a heavy dose to try and thwart the lesion but only for 6 days.)  And the other drug, surprisingly, it’s main use is for people who have received kidney transplants and it is used so there bodies don’t reject the kidney. 
I don’t know how long I will have to be on that med.  I did ask the doctor and he said it may be the rest of my life.  So now along with the fibro I now have this stupid breast disease.  As I have said before, I just want my boobies back. 
Oh well, I know things could be so much worse and the Lord will only give me as much as I am able to handle. 

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