What meds are you on for RA? Ones that control the disease, not cover it up?

If you are in this much pain, you might need a med change. That means the ones you are on have failed.

Also percocet always makes me sick to my stomach. When I had my foot reconstructed I chose not to take it, since the throwing up bothered me more than the pain.

I hope you find a solution to this problem

mtx .5 injection been on several different anti inflammatory.before the injection i was taking 6 tablets once a week of mtx and that was for 1 month been on injections for 3 weeks

the pred is going to make it feel like the disease is going going going away at 40 but then you re going to taper....

i can't tell how long you have been in treatment???

the mtx is usually increased to max dose and then a biologic is added when the mtx alone or the mtx with another disease anti modifying rheumatic drug such as plaquenil or sulfasazaline is not working

or when your disease related restrictions and limitations are increased as opposed to decreasing or stabilizing

marlene is nailing it for you: treat the disease not the symptoms.

to make you feel in empathy: my rheumatologist does not prescribe narcotics. oh wait a minute: if you are flying you can get 1 to 3 pills :)

my pcp does not prescribe pain pills.

my rheumie prescribes nsaids and neurontin

my pain management clinic does guided deep steroid injections only and no meds.

I am doing physical therapy under a psyiatrist right now and he doing injections additionally. also now I have this fancy Y membership at a heated medical pool - we'll see how much or how long I can last with that.

i can and have had every nsaid made in the world under my rheumie.

I do not use pred for pain management. i have a bad personal experience when rebounding from it - maybe it arrests and stops the pain for you, if so good until you get better therapeutic treatement.

do you see the rheum about every 10 to 12 weeks? maybe it is time for a visit.

depot

ive been on treatment of mtx for 2 months so far i am in the just starting this out. so itss fustrating i see my rhuemy every 2 months right now

2 months in treatment? oh! that makes better sense.

I would guess the doctor gave you the pred as a "bridge" until the right dose of mtx works and the right dose will keep going up until you hit the max mtx dose, probably, and you start reporting you feel better.

sometimes the rheumie adds WITH the mtx another dmard like plaquenil or sulfasazline. it's a chronic disease ad infinitum so I hope you get the pain controlled with treatment soon. The rheumies usually prescribe the pred and the nsaids....saying no pain management is code for no narcotic dispensary i have found not pred or nsaids

feel better with the high pred?

make sure you tell the rheumie you are / have been on the pred that another doctor, the pcp prescribed, otherwise the rheumie is going to think the mtx did all the work

depot

I let both docs know what the other is giving me. I am akso on folic acid 1mg daily i feel like a puffer fish to day pain is down some but im stiff in all my joints.

Thank you for your input it has been very helpful to me.