I had another Igg infusion treatment yesterday, which was my fourth. When I started these treatments, the doctor and I agree that I would have 6 treatments, one each month, to see if they made me fell better.

I felt bad yesterday when I went to get the infusion. As usual, the infusion took over 3 hours; I didn’t notice any big change in the way I felt during the first couple of hours of the infusion, because I was already feeling bad. But, I felt progressively worse toward the end of the infusion, and by the time I was finished, I felt really bad. I had fever all afternoon and stayed in bed.

I have an appointment to see the doctor next week; I suppose he will evaluate how the treatments are going and whether to continue for two more treatments. Unfortunately, I’m not very confident that the treatments are helping very much. For sure, the treatments did not provide a “cure”. I have good days and bad days. After the treatments started I thought I could see some benefit. However, I expected there to be some placebo effect. When the primary symptoms are malaise, burning eyes, mild headache, tiredness, and generally “don’t feel good”, it’s hard to evaluate improvement from day to day. I still have good days and bad days, but for a time I thought there might be fewer really bad days.

However, this month there were some days when I didn’t feel like doing anything. Yet, I had some pretty good days this month and had some good bike rides, which for me is a good gauge of how I feel. But, Wednesday and Thursday of this week I didn’t feel like riding or doing much of anything. The past few days have been particularly bad.