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...
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Im hoping that some of you who have been diagnosed with RA can help me out im setting up an appointment with a doctor here who treats and diagnosis this but have any of you have had RA diagnosed in your spine i have bad bone pain throughout my entire spine my pain a ten during the day but intesifies at night to a fifteen pain meds im on are not doing a thing my bones feel like they could shatter into a thousand pieces i feel like i just want to curl up in a ball and scream i hurt so bad.
I have a hard time changing positions in bed i have a hard time getting out of bed this bone pain way far out worse then the bone pain i had when i went through chemotherphy for breast cancer back in 2010 i was just wanting to know what your symptoms were like and what helped you would be great i also have a spinalcord stimulator but if i turn that on it makes it even worse.
But if you dont mind sharing your storie and symptoms with me that would be great and help me out alot for when i do get an appointment to rule this out, i use to have a friend with this but i no longer talk to her so i have no one that has this or understands what i feel like.
Im hoping that some of you who have been diagnosed with RA can help me out im setting up an appointment with a doctor here who treats and diagnosis this but have any of you have had RA diagnosed in your spine i have bad bone pain throughout my entire spine my pain a ten during the day but intesifies at night to a fifteen pain meds im on are not doing a thing my bones feel like they could shatter into a thousand pieces i feel like i just want to curl up in a ball and scream i hurt so bad.
I have a hard time changing positions in bed i have a hard time getting out of bed this bone pain way far out worse then the bone pain i had when i went through chemotherphy for breast cancer back in 2010 i was just wanting to know what your symptoms were like and what helped you would be great i also have a spinalcord stimulator but if i turn that on it makes it even worse.
But if you dont mind sharing your storie and symptoms with me that would be great and help me out alot for when i do get an appointment to rule this out, i use to have a friend with this but i no longer talk to her so i have no one that has this or understands what i feel like.
you have a spinal cord stimulator at home so I am wondering what your prior health care givers (ortho? neurologist? neurosurgeon? physiatrist? ) have said before you arrived at the gate of the rheumie?
what do your MRI 's (if any) show?
who is prescribing the 15 pain medications? is that a pain management place, what do they say? have you had epidural injections? steroid injections? that facet frying thing? did they ship you off to PT also? did you get into the warm water therapy?
i had a neurosurgeon operate on my cervical pain.
I see a physiatrist in my rheumie's office for S1 and Lumbar, facet and stenosis and radiculopathy
I have had injections
my practices are non narcotic practices and I am going crazy right now at night
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