{"id":877,"date":"2014-08-30T12:17:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/?p=877"},"modified":"2014-08-30T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T17:17:11","slug":"infusion-treatment-number-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/30\/infusion-treatment-number-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Infusion Treatment Number Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had another <a href=\"http:\/\/primaryimmune.org\/treatment-information\/immunoglobulin-therapy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Igg infusion treatment<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>I felt bad yesterday when I went to get the infusion. As usual, the infusion took over 3 hours; I didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;m not very confident that the treatments are helping very much. For sure, the treatments did not provide a \u201ccure\u201d. 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 \u201cdon&#8217;t feel good\u201d, it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>However, this month there were some days when I didn&#8217;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&#8217;t feel like riding or doing much of anything. The past few days have been particularly bad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qUzP-e9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}