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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / January 2006regarding the hands
Thanks very much to all of you kind and caring folks who have directed me to further influence my rheumy to take my progression seriously - but as some of you have said - we learn to live with it. I so much appreciate all of your feed back - thank you, thank you, thank you, Sincerely, Hiker Whoa! Believe me you need to be taken seriously. No One and I mean no one is meant to learn to live with this until everything has been done. I am sure no one who wrote in meant that. Believe me Hiker you do all the stuff but the RD has to take you seriously. You need to stop the damage and that is done with meds. Even if it is "only OA". Don't take that! Inflammatory erosive OA is treated with dmards these days. Please don't live with it. Make changes and push for changes. If you just learn to live with it you will have damage that is irreplaceable and possibly to more that just your hands. Kelly > Thanks very much to all of you kind and caring folks who have directed me > to further influence my rheumy to take my progression seriously - but as [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Sincerely, > Hiker Hiker, Good luck to you in seeing your rheumy. I, for one, would be interested to see how you make out. Again, good luck, Char Thanks very much - I called today and asked for something more, adding that Motrin wasn't doing enough; well he has prescribed Arthrotec, my main concern now, is tolerating it. I did very well with Bextra but nothing since has worked for me without intolerable side affects. I have received such good help from the group, I very much appreciate it. I do want to add, when the hands are their worst, I wear the arthritis gloves and it helps a lot. Thank you all, Hiker > Hiker, > Good luck to you in seeing your rheumy. > I, for one, would be interested to see how you make out. > Again, good luck, > Char Hiker, I was prescribed Arthrotec to take twice a day. Really made me nauseous and had diarrhea (sp). I stopped a couple of weeks and then tried taking it just in the morning after breakfast. No problem. Have done that for about a year so now am taking it twice a day again to see what happens. Gwen > Thanks very much - I called today and asked for something more, adding > that Motrin wasn't doing enough; well he has prescribed Arthrotec, my main [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> Again, good luck, >> Char What are you doing screwing around with Nsaids? They may cut the pain some, but they do NOTHING to stop the progression of the disease. Get on metho, remicade, Enbrel or something and fire your rheumie now for not pushing you to do that. I find it amazing that a person could watch someone like yourself progress while calling themselves a rheumatologist - what quack farm did he come from? Sorry, but this just irritates me no end. Treatment like this might have been in vogue back in the 60's and 70's, but it certainly isn't the case in today's world. Unless you're 80 years old (and I suspect by your moniker, you're not), save yourself now while you have a chance to do so. This disease has no patience for those who snooze. Mark >What are you doing screwing around with Nsaids? They may cut the pain >some, but they do NOTHING to stop the progression of the disease. Get [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Mark I agree completely. I'm lucky that I have a doctor who is very aggressive with treatments. The objective is to come as close to stopping the disease in it's tracks as we can. Thumper
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