Diana, forgot to mention that after I got home from the TKR, my insurance
paid for a Home Health nurse to check on me every day.  She would monitor
all my vital signs, check for fever or infection, and she took my staples
out when ready (74 in all! :-)  My surgeon was 90 minutes ...

Already posted to AMF so if you read it there, this is copied and pasted to
here so says the same thing.
Well went into to drs today. Seems I have another UTI. So hopefully I don't
have an reaction to the antib. She had to put me on Cipro and I had a

I posted on here a while back with the topic "Am I developing arthritis?"
I was pretty worried about the situation, as the symptoms seemed to fit
classical rheumatoid arthritis, and I also suffer from another autoimmune
condition. The suggestion from those kind people that ...

Hi all.  The lady I got to take my job could use your prayers and good
thoughts for her young son Martin who is scheduled for surgery on
Monday. They will be going in on Sunday to I am guessing it is to be
first thing Monday morning and a long one.

i haven't seen an update posted on how donnah was doing and thought some of
you might like to know.   so, i thought i'd cut and paste a bit from her
message sent yesterday.   hope she doesn't mind my doing this---
"<snip>I'm having a bit of a rough go but things improve daily...at

Thank you all for your support when I was whining last week.  I spent some
quality time taking extra pain meds and taking extra naps with my cat.  Then
I started back with the put one foot in front of the other and try to keep
heading the right direction that is life.

Hi, guys,
Want to thank you to everyone who contributed and gave advice a few weeks
ago. I really appreciate everything you all said.
Ultimately, I realized the whole incident was the proverbial straw that

Charlie just had another follow-up appointment for his broken heel.  Seems
the heel is OK.  Where I thought it looked like it was more swollen in just
the bone still growing from healing.
The other knee is his biggest problem.  (He never did learn to use crutches

Dear Folks,
I'm having a problem since Christmas with my toenails.  Yesterday, I was
walking out of a movie with my three teens and my little toenail just split
from the tip to the very base.  Is this normal? Any experience?  I've had RA

Today I saw my rheumy who had two types of treatment for my compression
fractures in mind. Of course, first and foremost in her mind was dealing
with the osteoperosis. She prescribed Forteo for me which my insurance will
not cover. The pharmacy told me it runs about $537 a month or ...

I had my infusion of Remicade today and now I am so much in pain from the
waist down. I mean hurting very badly in my legs. When I finished my
infusion it left me very very tired and wiped out feeling. Has anyone felt
this way? I have had this in the past after the Remicade but not ...

Is anyone taking Celebrex for RA?  How is it working for you?  Are you
taking it along with something else?
Polly

how much better I feel with pred on board. In the past year or two I
have been put on high dose pred for the foot thingy I get. Initially
(the first few times) I was told to take it for ten days and then
stop. After that I started a fairly rapid taper,  so it wasn't on

Hey everyone.  It has been 4 days since my first MTX injection.  I had a
mild case of diahrea last night and got up to pee about half a dozen times.  
Forgive me if this is inappropirate language for the group but I wuould
like to know if this sounds like it could be from the MTX? ...

I am on a pred reduction plan and have come down from 33mg to 19mg very
slowly...now redcing 1mg every Sunday till I see my RD when I reach
10mg.
I am really beginning to hurt now...lots of pain.  The dr told me it