Worrisome: RA, Gout, Kidney disease

With recent events happening in the world it has became kind of worrisome with everything. My family is a low income family with three kids. My husband is on Humira for his rheumatoid arthritis and he has been diagnosed with gout. 

My husband also has to go back to the rheumatologist every two to three month to make sure his labs are good and everything is functioning okay.  

 He also was only born with one kidney and he hangs out between stage 2 and stage 3 kidney disease in which his body cannot process everything correctly and it gets to the point sometimes he has to go to the hospital to get treatment and fluids to help his kidney filter things out and raise his GFR levels in which this is kind of scary sometimes. He is currently on Medicaid and because of this we do not have to worry about his medications.

 It is hard on him somedays and he struggles a lot but that does not stop him. He hurts all over his body and his arms, elbows, knees, feet and hands swell up to the point he cannot move it and it is a challenge for him some days.

He also works full time but he is trying to find a part time job that allows him to take days off or is just flexible with him and that is hard to do. The insurance his company offers is not the greatest not just that, he oftentimes have to switch companies because his contracts ends or they end up laying off because they do not need everyone that they hired. 

He also cannot get disability even though we filled it out and even sent everything they wanted and needed along with signing medical release forms and they still denied him because they would never come around and accept it and it was a long hassle with it. No one can just go without the money and funding they need to make sure ends are met and the bills are paid. The way they have the disability set up is horrible because it takes years for them to ever get back to you and approve or deny you and you can end up loosing everything just waiting on a response and often times they end up denying you and you end up having to find a lawyer to get help with it so that they will approve it and this also becomes a prolonged process. 

My hope and dream is to be able to make enough money to help him the best that I can so that he does not have to worry about bills or anything else. I want him to be able to take breaks and time for himself instead of forcing himself to work for a company that is just going to replace him when something happens. 

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My health update

 Hi guys, I am suffering a lot. I have been nauseous for a month now and I had a doctors appointment the 17th of January since I went to the hospital on the 15th for all of this and all they did was take my pee and test it so I decided to schedule a doctors appointment because this is not right. 

I thought I had food poisoning but this is the longest case of "food poisoning" ever in which it is not food poisoning. 

 The doctor gave me omeprazole to rule out if the GERD is causing it in which it is not because if it was the omeprazole would prevent it since it has been a week of taking it. 

 I had blood work done and it came back normal but I am still nauseous and they had to up my nausea meds. I have an appointment with the endocrinologist to check my hormone levels and see if there is something that the doctors missed. I also have an H test schedule to see if there are any bacteria brewing inside of me that the labs missed. This has been a journey and it has taken a toll of me.  

I can barely eat anything without having to throw it up now or being nauseated also it will come out in diarrhea so something is wrong and I am hoping they can find what it is.  

My weight, I went from 235+ to 229 which was impressive because I didn't even know I lost anything. I do not eat any fatty or greasy foods, I do not eat any process foods either. I eat baked, grilled or air fried foods and I have cut out a lot of sugar and caffeine.   

Also, I am having muscle aches and weakness so I hope in March, when the endocrinologist can tell me something to help me also, I have another OB appointment with a different OB to get a second opinion on what is going on. It could be something with my PCOS that is being over looked or something. 

Also periods, are shorter than normal, My period lasted 3 days and on the 4th day it came back light pink and went off so I feel something is wrong there.