Hi, have the meeting groups started up again since covid? I would really like to go to a local group as I feel really isolated. Non of my friends understand the level of pain and fatigue or limitations it places on me to do things.
I saw the Rheumatologist last week and had a diagnosis of probable Palindromic Rheumatism. Consultant recommended Hydroxychloriquine but agreed to let me take info away and get my head around it! I have an appointment with the nurse in January but nothing was said about what to do if I decide I want to start taking it. Do…
I have had RA almost 30years & can remember it taking a few years to get a formal diagnosis. I started to feel people thought it was all in my head, so it was a relief to finally have it show up in a blood test. I wonder how much has changed, only my 21 year old son has started to suspect he too may have RA & came to me…
I come under yorkhealth authority. There's no pain clinic at scarborough but there was before covid. Nearly end of october i recieved a call from york hospital got a cancellation on the friday and the call was tuesday can you come so i said where at york so i said got no transport so i can't get there and i can't get…
Started last year with vertigo to cut a long story short after an 8 week wait the M.R.I showed osteo in my cervical spine with nerve compression on one side. After waiting 9 months got to see neuro surgeon he told me the pain I have is not from the nerve compression . He referred me for nerve tests which showed carpal…
Hi just wondering about the covid vaccine. I have my flu jab booked in for next week. just finishing a course of steroids, and I am now on full dose of Sulphasalazine. I am anxious about having the 4th covid booster, as my RA diagnosis came about shortly after my 3rd booster. I did discuss it with the nurse couple of weeks…
I had a steroid injection a week ago into the sacral area on my spine, I have had them before. I am still in enormous amounts of pain ,insomnia, weakness etc. Is it right to assume it failed. Why would this be hit and miss they have worked previously. I am feeling hopeless.
I am awaiting a new hip replacement & after recent X RAY it appears I have a cyst on the femoral bone which I'm told is caused by my Osteoarthritis. Is this common & will this be rid of once my new hip is replaced? Thank you
I read that rheumatoid arthritis can effect the same joints symmetrically. I was wondering about fingers. Does it mean that different fingers may be effected in each hand or the same ones? I have trigger finger in my left ring finger and similar feeling in my right. Also both my index fingers hurt between the knuckle and…
Will the team post recent news, as it becomes available, re evusheld please? Some of us are immunosuppressed, taking mycophenolate mofetil etc. Thank you.
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