I’ve been on a wild goosechase trying to figure out why my body is losing iron and getting severely anemic. Could be from RA itself or RA related, could be something not RA. After ruling out so many things, the gastro wants to test for gastroparesis, and ordered a gastric emptying study. Guess what? It requires eating radioactive dye infused eggs, and I have an egg allergy. Not all hospitals in my area will do a non egg version of the test. I have to wait a few more weeks and drive a little further for an appointment. They told me I need to bring my own tofu. Crazy. So I’m waiting to eat my (presumably) crappy tofu salad radioactive sandwich. I tell my husband all this and he pipes in “heh. You’re eating a shit sandwich”. Thanks, honey. (I did laugh, though).
At this point, it feels like it’s harder to figure my current diagnosis out than getting my inital RA diagnosis 30 years ago. Why does my RA throw random shit at me every 10 years? Cant I just go back to one of my long remission periods? I’m tired, y’all.