It's almost 4 A:M now and I haven't been to sleep yet partly because of the terrible itching I have-I bought a body wash for dry and itchy skin and it works-it made my skin dry and itchy lol.I've taken 4 Hydroxyzine to take away the itch but to no avail.

The main reason that I can't sleep is because in just 6 1/2 hours I go for my first Remicade treatment.The doctors are telling me that I may not find any difference until the second or third treatment but if it can get just my hands and fingers up to par again I'll be extremely satisfied.If my hands get better I'm not going to be out of the woods yet as I'll have to practice for weeks and maybe months to get back what I'm after losing.This would be even bigger insentive to hoarde away money for my Rickenbacker.

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Best wishes and good luck, Derek!

Kind of after the fact now, but I find that Tylenol PM
work great for occasional insomnia.

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Don't leave home without it!

Best of luck brother.i will send up some good mojo bro.I can still remember back when I had to have carpal tunnel surgery on both my hands (seperate times of course).That was way back when I first joined the forum...wow.It really made me take a step back and re-think how much one depends on their hands for the simplest of tasks, much less pick up the guitar and do some serious chords and scales.Man am I grateful they were able to get my hands back up and running.They stiill give me a little problem here and there but I am able to use them again.Derek...good luck with the Remicade treatment bro

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1990 Fender Red Knob - "The Twin"
1992 Fender Newporter - Acoustic
2000 Fender American Series Strat - Natural ash
2010 Fender Mustang 1
2011 Fender Blacktop Jazzmaster -Sunburst
2012 Fender Champion

Wouldn't you know it? I had a major set-back this morning,I went to the clinic and had most of the prep work done,all that was left was for the nurse to check my pulse and blood pressure.He noticed something pretty out of whack with both so he did an EKG. With that he got the doctor to look at the results.The doctor called the chief of the cardiology department at the Health Sciences Centre and he told me to get over there right away. I had yet another EKG and it appears that I have atrial fibrillation and until they get that straightened out no Remicade-I,m not too pleased.Anyway he has me on Warfarin and another med that's supposed to keep the old ticker at a sensible rhythm then he's going to get my heartrate regulated by putting me under and putting the paddles to me-I can't wait.lol.

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Hang in there Deric. The Remicade thing is supposed to work very well, aside from the possibility of a fue scary side affects. But it seams that damn near all prescription medications have something potentially scary about them. I take about 12 different meds. at least every day and some of them twice a day, and they all come with some kind of a warning on the label. Thank god your insurance is OK with the cost. That stuff is expensive. Sounds like the worst part will be the 2hrs your setting still with the slow drip. Maybe you can take your laptop with you and write some beautiful music or even a song or two. And think Rickenbacker.
----Danny,

Hope everything works out for you my friend.

Wow Deric, your starting to sound like me. any more it's like every time I turn around something new crops up. That irregular heart beet can be a serious deal without treatment, but with Warfrin and other drugs they seam to be able to keep it in check.
Hang in there and they will get rid of it.
----Danny,

Rough times Derek! Hang in there, myself and the Max dog will probably be down later on this week for a cup of tea.