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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / October 2006Hello Everyone!
I have posted here before and had a lot of answers to my questions. I have severe Osteoarthritis, have a good physician, I believe, I get injections of cortisone every 3 months on both hips due to inflammatory bursitis, the pain as all know is becoming unbearable, as for meds, I believe I try everything, was on Valtoren, after reading something that the risks of taking it were as bad as Vioxx used to be, I stopped. Yesterday he gave a prescription for salsalate ( generic) 500mg , 2 twice a Day. Please any feed back on that medication or any advice for another medication. Thank you all. Ladybug. I have posted here before and had a lot of answers to my questions. I have severe Osteoarthritis, have a good physician, I believe, I get injections of cortisone every 3 months on both hips due to inflammatory bursitis, the pain as all know is becoming unbearable, as for meds, I believe I try everything, was on Valtoren, after reading something that the risks of taking it were as bad as Vioxx used to be, I stopped. Yesterday he gave a prescription for salsalate ( generic) 500mg , 2 twice a Day. Please any feed back on that medication or any advice for another medication. Thank you all. Ladybug. Hi Ladybug,,,, Please see a Rheumatologist to make sure you do not have a form of inflam.arth. If you do,,,, it may be too late to save your hips. Those steroid shots (I have had over a dozen) do their own kind of damage in a persons joint while they help us to live with what we have. Harv Hello Harv, I know what you mean about the shots, at first , at first I believed I had find the perfect miracle drug to relieve the pain, not anymore To answer your question I have been to a RA, who told me I didn't have Inflam.arth, so really I do not know what to do, and will resume talking Voltaren,risks or not, I like to be pain free for just one Day. Thank you Harv. Ladybug. "Ladybug75" <allie203@comcast.net> wrote in message news:a4ydnXrei7ydXZLYnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d@comcast.com... I have posted here before and had a lot of answers to my questions. I have severe Osteoarthritis, have a good physician, I believe, I get injections of cortisone every 3 months on both hips due to inflammatory bursitis, the pain as all know is becoming unbearable, as for meds, I believe I try everything, was on Valtoren, after reading something that the risks of taking it were as bad as Vioxx used to be, I stopped. Yesterday he gave a prescription for salsalate ( generic) 500mg , 2 twice a Day. Please any feed back on that medication or any advice for another medication. Thank you all. Ladybug. Hi Ladybug,,,, Please see a Rheumatologist to make sure you do not have a form of inflam.arth. If you do,,,, it may be too late to save your hips. Those steroid shots (I have had over a dozen) do their own kind of damage in a persons joint while they help us to live with what we have. Harv Hello Harv, I know what you mean about the shots, at first , at first I believed I had find the perfect miracle drug to relieve the pain, not anymore To answer your question I have been to a RA, who told me I didn't have Inflam.arth, so really I do not know what to do, and will resume talking Voltaren,risks or not, I like to be pain free for just one Day. Thank you Harv. Ladybug. Hi Ladybug,,,, Continue to read and post in alt.support.arthritis where several people have had hip procedures and they can help you to live and deal with your OA. Harv Harv and Group, Thank you for your answer, the support from strangers helps a lot, I have a question, well two, the shots that my RA gave me, after asking if it could caused some further damage, he told me no , because they were administered in the soft tissues. Second, after asking for the length of recovery after hip replacement again he told me 3 months at the most. Please keep the postings coming, its amazing how not only the pain is affecting my range of motion, my daily activities, but mostly, it puts me in a deep depression. Thank you Friends. Ladybug. "Ladybug75" <allie203@comcast.net> wrote in message news:X_Gdnde16N_e9o_YnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d@comcast.com... Hello Harv, I know what you mean about the shots, at first , at first I believed I had find the perfect miracle drug to relieve the pain, not anymore To answer your question I have been to a RA, who told me I didn't have Inflam.arth, so really I do not know what to do, and will resume talking Voltaren,risks or not, I like to be pain free for just one Day. Thank you Harv. Ladybug. Hi Ladybug,,,, Continue to read and post in alt.support.arthritis where several people have had hip procedures and they can help you to live and deal with your OA. Harv Hello Ladybug! Hope you are okay today. If you are a candidate for hip replacement, this is your best solution to stop your pain for many years to come. I had both my hips replaced over 9 years ago and do not have any pain at all. It took over 6 months to recover completely as I had two hips done (4 months apart). But the pain I had prior to the surgery was absolutely unbearable. Even just after the surgery, the pain was more bearable because they put you on pain medications and then you wean yourself off eventually. With a good surgeon and Physical Therapist, you will be back on your feet within a few months with no pain. It is so worth having done!! Hope this info helps. Angela Angela, Thank you for your encouraging posting, I am really thinking about it, the pain not only affect your body but also your mind, and there is no medications helping. I also need to have both hips replaced, and dream of days free of pain. Take care, and thank you again. Ladybug. > Hello Ladybug! > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Angela |
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