I would appreciate any input from all of you with RA and on this or any other arthritis medication.
Side effects especially, I get at least half of the side effects for any meds so I am concerned that my Rheumatologist wants me to start this one.
Thank you one and all for your medication experiences and any help you can give me on coping.
2007-04-16 02:27:41 · 0 answers · asked by ? 7 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
I had been on Maximum Strength Excedrin and Ibuprofen every four hours for a couple of years. Of course now have concerns of liver problems.
I have changed over to Hydrocodone as needed in the last 6 months.
I have had some success with Prenisone
(it repaired my knees) but the pain just moves to new joints.
I take massive A to Z vitamins and that helped the brain fog enormously.
Boy it is NOT fun!!
2007-04-16 02:49:41 · update #1
Try some Fish oil and Celadrin. Also you might find and look at a copy of Prescription For Natural Cures for some good discussion of RA and alternative treatments. Plaquenil is a powerful Rx drug and you can read all about it on Yahoo search. I would take it if nothing else was working, but only then.
Swansonvitamins.com has the celadrin product which has been very widely used in Europe and helps many arthritis sufferers. It does not require a prescription and has few side effects.
2007-04-16 02:37:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have chronic pain and I'm with you. I seem to get side effects from different drugs too. My philosophy is the least amount of drugs the better, but I don't want pain so I am only on generic percocet. For RA you may need an anti inflammatory too but nothing is going to cure it so why take all these different drugs, I know its painfull and I hope you are on pain meds. Sometimes the side effects are worst than the actual pain. So I guess you have to choose. Are you in pain management? I think you should be. The rheumatologist diagnoised you now you can go to pain management.
2007-04-16 02:37:30 · answer #2 · answered by SusiQ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no medicine in this world to treat RA. Pain killers never kill the pain but the patient. Drugs first hit stomach then liver and finally kidneys.
Why don't you shift over to Alternate Systems of Medicine? We treat RA and our success rate is 90%, that too without medicine!
You should try acupuncture at least.
2007-04-16 05:13:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋