Flare-ups and reactions to medications can take or last up to several months. Medications typically need a certain amount of time before they reach their full effect, then can take months to trickle out of your system completely, so one course of a medication can lasts months and months. Then we have flare-ups, specifically inflammatory flare-ups that can range from lasting days to lasting months.
So what does this all do in relation to time? It is a bit paradoxical ...
On one hand, adverse drug reactions and increased pain make the days feel longer, more grueling, and moments can feel like a lifetime.
On the other hand, these things require so much time and attention that when they finally subside and things return back to 'normal', it can feel as though you have missed an entire year of your life.
So they become the LONGEST days but it also feels like all this time has passed and you have aged without really living through that aging process.
I feel like I have lost a year or two of my life because of two major issues within the past three years. So each day felt long and excruciating but now it feels like I completely flew past my most recent few years....