that feeling when you’re technically ‘better’ after a bad flare or infection, but you’re still completely exhausted, is a real thing. you’re done with the antibiotics, maybe finished the steroid pack, but walking to the mailbox feels like a marathon.
it’s a frustrating place to be. i had a patient years ago, a woman with severe rheumatoid arthritis.
every so often she’d have a terrible flare, and we’d have to use a 😂