Plan B is a go

Saw lovely GI Guy today. All my tests came back negative so I'm cleared for Humira. Woo! He sent the email while I was in the office and by the time I got home from work, there was a voice mail waiting for me. It was too late to actually speak to anyone by that stage, but I'll be calling tomorrow to get the paperwork rolling and hopefully I'll have an appointment to do my loading doses and learn how to inject myself by the end of the week.

It's all a bit scary, but I'm rather excited by the thought of finally not bleeding all the time and having my energy back. He's also ordered blood work to check my HGB, which we suspect is dropping rather nicely, although he is certain that it will start to go back up once the Humira is working.

Let's just all hope that the Humira works before my HGB is low enough to need another transfusion, shall we?

( Cut for some thinky stuff about my worries )

In other news, my useless GP has been proved to be useless by someone other than me. The pharmacist is going to try to explain to him that just because the chemicals in two different birth control pills are the same, that does not mean you can just prescribe whatever you feel like. You also have to make sure that the dosages are the same. Prescribing me the wrong one because you couldn't find the right one on your computer screen? Is not a help! Hopefully the pharmacist will have more luck than I did. I spent twenty minutes trying to argue that he'd written the wrong script and he wouldn't believe me. Argh.

And in insane news, how many IT professionals does it take to change the battery in a phone headset? It turns out, you need at least three...