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- OK, sports fans, lets start a list. Both Coaltrain and Christine have written threads about ongoing struggles trying to get meds. A couple of weeks in, neither situation is resolved. So, what stories can we each add? I'll go first.1) Shortly...
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130403072003.htmI just found this article on another site and thought some of you might find it interesting. Basically, a couple of researchers posit that high TNF levels, found in inflamed people like...
- Has anyone had any luck with finding alternate programs for copay assistance with biologics?Here's the deal. I saw my rheumy Monday, and we agreed to give Orencia a try. They gave me a copay card, and I called to register it. The woman on the...
- http://www.examiner.com/article/new-painkiller-deadly-new-pill-is-10-times-stronger-than-vicodin-experts-sayWe have had a lot of discussions recently about the difficulty of getting painkillers. Here's an article about a new one, where they're...
- I am sooooo sick of this. Name of the game: hurry up and wait. Then wait some more.I had really hoped to be feeling better by now, to have some of my life back. I started seeing a rheumatologist in April of 2012. Went through the usual tests &...
- http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/kale-juicing-trouble-ahead/?hp&rref=opinion/international&_r=0From today's NY Times website. Read it and weep, you kale eaters you!
- I'm trying to get new insurance for my family through the new health insurance exchange. I have never seen such a useless, ill-conceived, slow, aggravating website in all my life. Designed by kale-eaters, no doubt.I'm looking at drug formularies,...
- http://health.yahoo.net/articles/gerd/acid-suppressors-could-cause-vitamin-b12-deficiencyThis was on Yahoo this morning. I don't know how many of us take Zantac, Pepcid, Prilosec, etc, but I'll bet a lot do, especially as they are available OTC. ...
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/us/politics/federal-health-law-may-not-be-a-federal-health-care-program.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0This article was in yesterday's Times. It looks as thought they have a found a way around, allowing co-pay assistance...
- http://rawarrior.com/seronegative-rheumatoid-arthritis/Kelly Young, RAWarrior herself, strikes again. This was yesterday's post about seronegative RA. I like her last statement about doctors needing to use lab results as a tool instead of a weapon.
- Does this one ring a bell with anyone?I took my first dose of Enbrel, 50 mg., Sunday night. (I was on Humira last fall, had to stop it after 6 weeks, then on 25 mg. of Enbrel for 4 weeks before losing my doctor and spending too many months finding...
- I've had a second visit with my newest rheumatologist, and I think this one's a keeper. My first had me under the "unspecified inflammatory arthropathy" label. She put me on prednisone, MTX and its little friends, Humira, which I couldn't...
- I've been shooting my meth rather than taking the pills for about a year now. The last month, 3 out of 4 injections has left a nasty bruise. They appear a couple of days after the shot, and they take as long as 2 or 3 weeks to clear up. I use...
- Several folks here, RASally in particular (thank you!), have posted a lot about using ultrasound for diagnosis of RA. The RA Warrior website has just started a series on the use of ultrasound. Check it...
- I'm between doctors at the moment: my first rheumy left town, the second was a complete horse's patootie, and the earliest I can see anyone else is mid-August. So, can you kind folks answer a question for me?I've been on methotrexate for a year,...