My daughter and her wrist?

Question

My daughters is 11 years old and latety has had a sore wrist, her doctor did lab and xray. Lab came back normal but with strep showing up, but the doctor was looking for Juvenile R Arthritis. So today we saw a rhemetoligest he spend an hour telling us that it could still be JRA but at it earlist so not detected in the blood yet. Then he said from the xray that they could see some air pocket or calcifacation or something(he was a little hard to understand). He gave us a splint with a cold pack in it for sleeping and anti-inflamatory narporsyn. He said with any luck this will resolve itself by taking it easy that posibly it could have just been strained. What in the world is all the fuss about this? I just took her in for a sore wrist? Should I worry or should I just settle down I don't know how to feel.

Answer 1

It's human nature to be very anxious about an unresolved medical worry. Definitely follow the doctor's orders, but if there is no improvement, don't hesitate to get a second opinion, and a third...as many as it takes. Doctors are not omnicient beings, and sometimes it is incredibly difficult to make a diagnosis. I wouldn't panic about arthritis yet, but do as much research about it and any other possible causes of wrist pain that you can. The better informed you are as a parent, the better you can work with a doctor to get an answer.

Answer 2

rheumatoid arthritis is very serious as the joint is literally deteriorated- I would not panic yet as that was not the diagnoses - but I would keep a careful eye on her wrist - if it does not seem better in a few months see another doc

Answer 3

do the rest and cold pack the dr suggested
if it clears up great if it doesn't then ...
you need an informed second oppinion.

Answer 4

I would get a second opinion

Answer 5

Pray for healing.

Answer 6

get another opinion, see another doc.