2nd Rheumy appointment tomorrow

mld
mld Member Posts: 45
edited 4. Dec 2012, 07:22 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hi,

So my second appointment has turned up quickly after the first - just 3 weeks. Hopefully I might get some helpful medication as I am in agony, but aren't we all? I've been off the NSAIDs for three weeks now, and I couldn't keep on taking the co-codomol they prescribed, it just didn't work.
So Hopefully they'll have the x-rays they took last time and results of all the bloods I gave them.

Hubby is coming with me to the appointment. I'm glad to have an extra pair of ears with me, but I also wish that some of you would come along and ask the right questions - or make the correct responses.

Last time, the consultant looked at my large knees and said, "Oh, they're always like that." No they were'nt and now they are in pain.

If you want a laugh then envisage me looking for my scarf, gloves and woolly hat for tonight. I thought that they might have been under the bed. I eventually took the plunge and got to the floor - looked under the bed (not there), and then tried to get up off the floor. I couldn't do it, it took about 5 minutes to reposition every part of my body to work out how to get up.

Now if someone wants me to take an ESA test a pick up a button off the floor, I will have to ask them if they can do it, unless they have a spare 5 to 6 minutes!! :lol:

Here's to hoping it will be OK tomorrow - and some pain relief, please.

Margaret

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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I will be there in spirit tomorrow, mld, these appointments are always awkward when one is new to it all. I haven't knelt since late 1997 and the only time I end up on the floor is when I've toppled over. :lol:

    As for sensible questions, well, they vary from patient to patient and rheumatologist to rheumatologist. I do recommend, however, not being afraid to ask about anything you don't understand or don't know about. And then come and ask us the same questions and hopefully our combined experiences will provide some answers. :wink:

    It takes time to build a relationship with a rheumatologist and I hope the one you are seeing is the one for you. Please let us know how you get on, yes? DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Margaret
    Sorry if im late but I will be thinking about you today and wishing you well...I have all sorts of contraptions for looking under beds including my mop handle...please let us know how you get on xx
    Love
    Barbara
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    hope you will forgive me if i am late was filling bus up ready to pick the others up
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    thinking of you and hope you get the results you want val
    val
  • mld
    mld Member Posts: 45
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Woosh! That's how the appointment seemed to go.

    My RA test has come back negative, but when the consultant saw my knees today she asked the registrar to give me a depo........ injection, it's a steroid supposedly which will work for between 1 month and three, or that is what she said at least!

    I've still got an MRI scan next week to check out for AS. So that may also be positive.

    I asked some awkward questions after the registrar exmanied my knees and I told her how , just a few months ago, what I could do stretching wise.

    Thanks for the support folks, much appreciated.

    Margaret

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