Day four on far less medication

I am not saying I am med free, after all I am still eliminating foods and that process caries a likelihood of reactions.  So yesterday I wanted something, or rather needed something to eat after my endoscopy.  The M&S cafe inside the John Radcliffe Hospital has a very poor selection of gluten free and dairy free products.  Considering this was a service inside a hospital, I am frankly appalled at Marks & Spencer!

The only item they had was a tomato (and red pepper?) soup with (optional) gluten free rolls.  I asked for the GF rolls, only to be served with normal wheat rolls!!!!  I complained, naturally, and the waitress went to the M&S shop next door and brought a GF loaf, from which I had two slices.

Bread notwithstanding I am safe with neither tomato nor red pepper.  So overnight my wrists both hurt and became swollen.  Not totally intolerably, but I new I would need something to get me through the night.  So on with a generous dollop of 10% diclofenac gel around the wrists and my right elbow, and thence a couple of paracetemol.

Morning is here and certainly I am not recovered fully from that flare, but I will get there.  My feet feel a bit tender so I guess that's another bit of reaction.  A bit more gel and a certain amount of patience...  Whatever my inflammation is not coming back in earnest.

Let me say clearly, the road to recovery continues unabated.  At the next meeting with my doctor I hope to place the termination of my MTX medication clearly on the agenda!  The end of MTX may be a month or two, or more away, but the end is nigh.

Oh, and by the way, my endoscopy came out with normal results.  So any anaemia problems I have are not manifesting themselves in a poor digestive system that this endoscopy shows.

PS: I have just been onto M&S website and used their live chat service for complaints and had an apology and a promise of a gift voucher.