I had a Derm visit today. I'm glad I had it, 100% glad, but man do I feel beaten up.

I got my first Stelara shot - woohoo!

I also got like 6 or 7 steroid shots in my arm pits, ouchie!

Then, they asked me if I wanted to participate in a study they are doing, where they collect draining from the HS's and analyze it. Apparently they are trying to figure out what cells are in the drainage to better understand what part of the immune system is responsible for HS. I said, sign me up! I'm glad I did, but then it proceeded with about 20 minutes of them squeezing my HS's and getting fluid out of them, all over my body, and collecting it with qtips.

Now, I hurt everywhere lol. I'm going to go take a nap now and hopefully wake up feeling better.