New drugs

Despite having been originally told that they wouldn't change my drug regimen for three months so things could stabilise, the issue of side effects (mainly the ridiculous excess hair growth) has led them to decide to move me off the Cyclosporin - the really big horse-sized tablets in the pictures back in December - on to a different drug called Tacrolimus, starting today. Apparently this should end that particular side effect immediately, but of course there are a whole raft of new ones to play with, including hair loss, just for variety, and the potential to become diabetic, which happens to as many as one in 5 people taking this drug. Brilliant! *lol* Oh well, worth having a go anyway. I honestly think I'd rather be watching my sugar intake than having to shave daily. 

There's still some concern about my creatinine being stuck at the 135-140 mark when it was down at 108 a few weeks ago, but now that I'm changing drugs all bets are off for a bit. I've also got an ultrasound on Monday, and they apparently schedule a biopsy for three months anyway to see how things are going internally in the kidney (a 3D view as opposed to the 2D view of an ultrasound is how they put it), so that's all coming up in the next few weeks. For the time being, still going back twice a week.

In other news, had a fantastic pampering day with a lovely friend this week, am starting Tai Chi classes nextThursday and am going to escape to Cardiff for 48 hours the week after that.... and then think about going back to work. Yikes!