I took my first shot of Humera Monday. I’ve been off of it since August 2008. It’s been a long wait as I went off of it due to a simple cold.  [It lowers my immune system so much, if I continue to take it while ill, I get very sick.] The cold, however, was followed by cellulitis & edema in my leg, which led to an abscessed ankle wound, a staph infection, & then in November 2008, the flesh eating bacteria. My rheumatologist "cleared to me" to go back on Humera last week, but a pin-drop size of scab was weeping on my h& wound, where I recently had four joints/knuckles replaced, & that made me nervous. Before I had the flesh eating bacteria last year, I had known of the risks of infection on an intellectual level in taking these … [Read more...]