For re. Exercise

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Hi , my joint pain was only really severe for a week but is still

uncomfortable and if I bend down I cannot get up again without help.

I'm a secretary and have started back at work doing slightly reduced

hours at the moment. It's not ideal and I'd rather be off till I heal

completely but I cannot afford to lose my job. I think it will mean

in my case healing will take longer, but hopefully not that it won't

happen at all. Mainly I sit down and type so not too much moving

around, but getting up off my chair gets more uncomfortable each time

the day goes on. My knees are the worst culprit. I'm taking one

paracetamol in the morning for the pain and hydrochloroquine twice a

day. I have another appointment with my rheumatologist on Friday

morning and I'm hoping he'll tell me to reduce the hydroxychloroquine

to one tablet a day as I don't like taking it for fear of long-term

effects. If cortisone is a steroid it will help with pain and

swelling but I don't like taking it long term as it only masks the

symptoms and while you are completely pain free I think you may do

more damage by overdoing things. If you keep some of the discomfort,

you know when you've had enough. Just my humble opinion.

Mo

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> I have had EN since 99 and this last bout has taken forever to heal.

> Can I ask how do any of you work with this especially with the joint

> pain. I am finding that it is all I can do to put one foot in front of

> the other on some days, and I work full time. If Tylenol etc is

> supposed to be a trigger, what can a person take. They are at a lose

> with me and I think my derm. will send me somewhere else, I did

> notice when I had poison ivy really bad and had to go in for a

> cortisone shot, things got alot better real fast. any suggestions for

> the joint pain would help

> W

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