Today's been my worst day for a few months, really struggled to get moving this morning and my hands are painful and inflexible, I hate this illness. I'm on week 8 of Methotrexate - it hasn't started to work yet - the effects of the steroid shot I got [8 weeks ago] has worn off, am on a reducing dose of prednisolone with strict instructions to stop (3mg today) and have been taking 1200mg day ibuprofen for the past 10 days but that stopped yesterday and I've just started on Naproxen. To make this situation just that little bit worse, I had a wisdom tooth out on Monday and the residual pain is .... well, what you would expect.
I don't think the Naproxen has began to work yet - can anyone tell me if it's OK to take paracetamol on top of it?
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you really are in the wars presently and it is very tough to come off medication when your new medication has not kicked in yet. I cannot advise you about taking paracetamol ontop of your other treatments but I would strongly recommend you ask to speak to your GP on the phone or if you can get to your local chemist, go and see you pharmacist. If it is possible to get hold of your rheumatology team it would certainly be a good idea to speak to them and explain that it is urgent and that you are not coping. We do have a booklet about managing pain that may help you too https://www.arthritiscare.org.uk/do-i-have-arthritis/publications/217-managing-pain
Please let us know how you get on and most importantly do not suffer in silence when you are in this much pain
Best Wishes
Sharon
I really hope the naproxen has a true AI effect, I've sort of being pinning my hopes on it.
Martyn
There are some for who the meds are effective and they are able to return to a nearly normal life (whatever that might be) which must be lovely: I sincerely hope that once the meds are sorted you will be among their number. I firmly believe that the quicker the diagnosis and the sooner one starts the meds the better the outcome will be. DD
Barbara
Alastair