So, my last blog was all positive and optimistic but maybe I had spoken too soon.
I caught a cold a few weeks before Xmas and it made me feel really rough. So what? Everyone had a cold didn't they.
This cold took cold and became a very bad cough because my immune system is being suppressed by the drugs I am taking and so began a very long winter of being ill.
I caught virus after virus, a chest infection and eventually I developed glandular fever. Unfortunately the viruses or the glandular fever do not respond to antibiotics and I was so poorly that I reduced my work to 2 hours teaching a day with a sleep in between.
All in all I was ill from early December until the first week in April but now am now happily back to normal.
I am not looking for sympathy here but am just trying to point out that RA has other effects that are not obvious and so I am doubling my Vit D intake from the end of summer.
On the positive side I lost one stone three pounds while I was ill and hopefully it wont come back.
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