Rheumatoid Arthritis Support Group
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory, multisystem, autoimmune disorder. It is a disabling and painful condition which can lead to substantial loss of mobility due to pain and joint destruction. The disease is also systemic in that it often also affects many extra-articular tissues throughout the body including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and...
Hello All...
so distraught about my recent neck pain ; need to mention am having computer issues, still on my very old one at present and that makes posting here really hard, but this is the only place I can find the kind of community support i am looking for.
i saw a post when I first joined this RA group which was titled NECK PAIN ?? I think, and i have searched in vain since then to find it...as I did not read it at the time..(again my computer is just too slow and it does not get along with the DS site) ..am typing this on seperate file in fact, to paste.
Does RA cause severe debilitating neck pain, first off.??
* was dx with osteoarthritis first in 1990, which showed major neck degeneration and osetophytes...
was snubbed in 2003 by a rheumie when he did BW to check for RA ; it came back positive but he did not think i had RA then; based on my symptom hx; as I probably said my pain was worse later in the day, etc. And while my joints all hurt (except my hips thankfully) , they did not hurt simultaneously on both sides ....
well move to 2011, new RA test , off the charts positive.....symptoms worse and consistent with RA now....have been officially RA Dx. (brand new RA doctor now)
also was told, "maybe Lupus" ...have to wait till May 9th to see his further thoughts on this.
so , due to the osteo arthritis and oh yeah, fibro too, I am used to chronic pain, sadly.
used to horrid neck and back pain too. But this 'new neck pain' is scary scary scary.....a jolt out of the blue as though i got slammed into by a car and have immediate whiplash.....and feels almost paralyzing....
really want to know, the rest of you, your experience as far as neck pain goes?
(I did have plenty of xrays taken recently but won't know specifics about those, until the 9th of May.)
is neck pain common with RA, and if so , can you attempt to describe it? is it necessarly worse in the mornings or intermitant all day and night?
my neck is so stiff , already but when this new special pain hits it really really FEELS like if i move a centimeter i will become paralyzed.
the only thing I am currently on is prednisone and Indomethacin--neither of which do anything for my neck. I am supposed to be taking the generic of Plaquenil but have been procrastinating......(does anyone know , is it ok for someone who is allergic to sulfa drugs? ...Yes, I did tell my doc about that allergy but all the time, I have docs writing me Rx's for things I am allergic to, so it's no wonder I don't have blind faith that they won't.
so distraught about my recent neck pain ; need to mention am having computer issues, still on my very old one at present and that makes posting here really hard, but this is the only place I can find the kind of community support i am looking for.
i saw a post when I first joined this RA group which was titled NECK PAIN ?? I think, and i have searched in vain since then to find it...as I did not read it at the time..(again my computer is just too slow and it does not get along with the DS site) ..am typing this on seperate file in fact, to paste.
Does RA cause severe debilitating neck pain, first off.??
* was dx with osteoarthritis first in 1990, which showed major neck degeneration and osetophytes...
was snubbed in 2003 by a rheumie when he did BW to check for RA ; it came back positive but he did not think i had RA then; based on my symptom hx; as I probably said my pain was worse later in the day, etc. And while my joints all hurt (except my hips thankfully) , they did not hurt simultaneously on both sides ....
well move to 2011, new RA test , off the charts positive.....symptoms worse and consistent with RA now....have been officially RA Dx. (brand new RA doctor now)
also was told, "maybe Lupus" ...have to wait till May 9th to see his further thoughts on this.
so , due to the osteo arthritis and oh yeah, fibro too, I am used to chronic pain, sadly.
used to horrid neck and back pain too. But this 'new neck pain' is scary scary scary.....a jolt out of the blue as though i got slammed into by a car and have immediate whiplash.....and feels almost paralyzing....
really want to know, the rest of you, your experience as far as neck pain goes?
(I did have plenty of xrays taken recently but won't know specifics about those, until the 9th of May.)
is neck pain common with RA, and if so , can you attempt to describe it? is it necessarly worse in the mornings or intermitant all day and night?
my neck is so stiff , already but when this new special pain hits it really really FEELS like if i move a centimeter i will become paralyzed.
the only thing I am currently on is prednisone and Indomethacin--neither of which do anything for my neck. I am supposed to be taking the generic of Plaquenil but have been procrastinating......(does anyone know , is it ok for someone who is allergic to sulfa drugs? ...Yes, I did tell my doc about that allergy but all the time, I have docs writing me Rx's for things I am allergic to, so it's no wonder I don't have blind faith that they won't.
Thanks
Popped advil, aleve and tylenol - limited relief. Sometimes ben gay rub disctracted me enough to fall asleep.
Rheumy totally agrees this was the onset. I'm sorry you are in pain.
i will take what you all said into consideration. I took myself to a pain doc years ago who did an MRI......I don't recall any info from him on that; but i know my xrays always are so bad, every doc , chriro and xray tech has asked if I had been in a bad car wreck.
WTH.
that pain doc wanted to inject my neck too, and I chickened out.
now am thinking of doing it. but after seeing what my new rheumie says on the 9th.
i think PT would help as when I have gotten a tiny little massage there it even helped .....wonder if it's muscle pain, related to the joint pain.
and i've had plenty of arthritis pain in my TMJ joint as well, actually that is better now that I learned some things about not using it.
(anything to relax your jaw helps, esp before bedtime)
in the latter,. it gives tips on adjusting the side mirrors of your car so you don't have to turn your body around to see what's coming.
something like, sitting in drivers seat, lean your head toward driver's window till it touches and adjust the mirror in that position so you can't see your car in the mirror....and for the passenger side mirror you are supposed to lean toward center of car and adjust the same- I think it is helpful though my little Honda makes any adjusting hard-
sorry 'bout my awful typing i am pecking and hunting at this point