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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...
Odd but maybe part of this crazy thing we call R.A

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I had an awful 2 days. Those who know me already on here knows I'm waiting to see a Specialist the 8th after testing POS for R.A and Lupus, and been waiting awhile:( It had been raining here for days and the first day it worked on my legs and knees which are bad to start with, then yesterday legs still had their normal ache but felt better but my hands OMG! Both hurt but my left hand fingers got so cold one of them looked so old and skinny and started to turn out from knuckle up, how ever this morning other then the morning stiffness I feel good. Flare I think they call it, well even the finger I was worried about looks better then it did. Is this how R.A works? I need help understanding this one:)
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Hope your flares stay away.
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I agree with the other on asking your GP for some pred to help control the inflammation. once you get in to see your rheumie, push to start all the aggressive meds they take 3 months to start working.
keep us posted
hugs sandi
As far as it taking 3 months to work...once I was on Remicade within 2 weeks mine worked. But everyone is differant.
I do know that methotrexate takes some time to kick in tho...
Good luck and wishing you plenty more pain free days =)
I had a little bit of pred that I took for 2 1/2 days on a decreasing dose that first week. What a sigh of relief.
I'm on 5000mg of Fish Oil daily and 5000 IU of Vitamin D+ 1200mg of Calcium, in addition to my daily vitamin. Not to mention meds for other stuff.
I'm not sure if the Fish Oil is helping or not, but I don't want to stop taking it to find out.
I hurt, I'm fatigued and I'm frustrated.
The only OTC remedy I've that help's once in a while, but esp w/ morning stiffness is Percogesic Back Relief/Doan's Back Relief (Magnesium Salicylate). Even then I have to take a dose right before bed and another at like 3 or 4 am, which I'm usually up at that point for a bit anyway.
I keep reading that people take Tylenol. Which isn't an anti-inflammatory, it just increases the threshold of pain; in our case that's not a bad thing. Has anyone had luck w/ this?
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