Hello all. Just saying hello and just letting you know that i havn't forgotten about you, its just taking sometime for the official results to come through but i have had a call from my rheumy. She tested me for RA and spondylitis it seems im clear from them but she didn't say much about the X-rays as far as i can remember…
Thought i would post this song just to put a smile on some faces of people who are probrably feeling a bit fed up. It will probrably do that or make you even more miserable, either way enjoy listening :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCbbZgLBdwA
Can anyone describe the pain and stiffness felt with metatarsal pain caused by psoriatic arthritis? I have pain and stiffness in the top of my foot where toes 3,4&5 meet the foot
Hi everyone, I’m new to this so bare with me. I’ve been on Cimzia just over a year now and since starting my weight has ballooned especially my stomach! More worryingly, quite soon after starting I developed chest problems giving me a constant cough especially through the night and my voice has gone really deep and breaks…
Talked with my dr. today. She said that my dramatic response to prednisone shows a lot of inflammation is going on. Although, the only actual erosions I have are in my feet. Hips and big toes mostly show OA type damage. So she said I could go on a low dose of pred. -5 mg a day- to help with the joint pain. And she also…
I am really at rock bottom at the moment. I think Methotrexate is killing me. Sounds drastic I know but that is what I believe. I have lost 90% of my hair, I'm nauseas all the time, buzzing in my ears. Now my Dr tells me I am severely anaemic due to internal bleeding. It is my day to do the injection but I don't want to…
Hi, I have joined this forum as I have increasingly bad osteoarthritis (around shoulder and collarbone, collar bone currently broken) and would really appreciate some help and advice. I am currently getting hydrcortisone injections guided by ultrasound. This has offered me no relief and I cannot cope with the pain. I have…
Hello, I am new to this forum and would like to hear other people's experience of recovery from a trapeziectomy. I am 53,still working part time and a carer for my mum,who is disabled and housebound, I have been told I can't push the wheelchair for at least 6 months....so currently hiring a mobility scooter each week so…
Just popping in to say Hi to everyone, everything is pretty good with me and counting down to our next holiday which is a week away! Off to sunny Tenerife for a couple of weeks. Had my Knee Consultant appointment moved to when I come back off holiday which was annoying as I was hopping to see him before I went away to…
For the last five years I have chronic Reactive Arthritis that is not going way despite NSAID / TNF blocker. It's to the point this arthritis has moved up to the spine. Few days will pass I would feel good then few days later it's arthritis flares up for no reason. I have taken countless abx for months and months nothing…
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