Tonsilitis and arthritis flares

January 30, 2011

I have been having an awful flare. All week it's been a marathon of pain all

day, all night, with swelling. I will go to bed at 8 wake up at 2 be in pain and

unable to sleep until 5 or 6. I won't wake up the next day until 4 pm. We

called the doctor on call. I had been taking tramadol for pain, but the later it

got in the week, the less the tramadol worked. The doctor told me to take

Tylenol, which we had been doing!!! After we told him we had done everything in

our power, he told us that I shouldn't be I'm this much pain and that it jut

CANT be arthritis. He then told us to call my pain management doctor then give

him a call back. She wasn't available until Monday, so we ended up calling a

nurse at the hospital for her opinion. So then after we talked on the phone

with her she told us that it makes complete and total sense and that she had

seen kids with arthritis who had very remarkable pain. She told us to call him

back and demand for Something,

anything. We'll of course we expected prednisone, but instead he called in

hydrocodone. I mean it gets rid of the pain, but I still don't feel good and I

am still swollen. It only takes care of the pain, but nothing else.

All week the right side of my throat has hurt, but I thought nothing of it

because it seemed to get better as the day went on and I drank more water. It

it got worse so we went to an urgent care and she said I have tonsillitis. I am

also on a z pack now for that. But I was wondering if my flare could have

anything to do with it. Could it really be my neck swollen?

We also got news that we might be moving to Pensacola Florida we know there is a

ped. Rhuemy there. Does anyone go to that doctor? I know the hospital is called

sacred heart children's

Any advice is appreciated

Thank you

Shea Reasoner

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