Last night I had a really tough time sleeping through the entire night.
After I attempted to get back to sleep, only to find myself staring - wide-eyed - at the ceiling, I decided to grab my sketch book and do a bit of sketching and writing until I felt sleepy enough to go back to bed.
Yeah, that didn't happen.
Once Rj woke up, I realized I was going to be staying awake.
So I suggested, since we were both wide awake, that maybe we use some of our gift cards and go on a day date.
So that's what we did.
There was only one problem - and luckily it was a small problem. I guess it was too soon after my Cimzia injection to do anything exciting. Shortly after we got to the restaurant, my throat became a bit tight. Not concerningly tight, but enough for my voice to change.
We quickly made sure that there were no surprise ingredients in our food that could induce a reaction (there wasn't), and then tried to take it really easy.
Now the question lies in whether or not I should continue with the medication.
This wasn't a dental appointment or an actively exciting outing. This included Rj driving to the restaurant and ordering food. I didn't have an alcoholic drink or anything either.
The excitement of going out for food - even after taking Benadryl and Prednisone with the injection - was enough to nearly induce a throat swell. What that means is that biologics are most likely less of an allergy and more of an intolerance from the Angioedemic illness itself.
It did not progress, thankfully, so I was able to get home and take what I required to settle my system down.
Now for the next week or two I will have to be exceptionally careful so as not to induce another minor episode (or worse).
Was it worth it?
Always. Dinner was great, it was a nice date, we went to a restaurant I had not been to before, and we had gift cards so we did not really have to spend anything above tip.
Great afternoon. .
Went home to sleep and woke up about half an hour ago (just before 10pm). May have a rough sleep again tonight.
Oops.