New and Mouth Sores

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Hi. I am new. Both to RA and this group. I have had problems for 2 1/2

years, but most of it went away during my pregnancy and nursing. I broke my

foot, and when the swelling did not go away a bone scan showed inflammatory

arthritis. That with the joint swelling and pain got me RA. I am

sero-negative so the scan went a long way to getting me a diagnosis. I

really did not have a lot of problems at first, but I started Plaquenil

because of my foot. I started taking 200 mg twice a day. Then I had a lot

of problems with my joints and ended up back in my rheumatologist office. I

had a few mouth ulcers, and I was loosing lots of hair so he cut me back to

once a day. In the last month I have done two 6 day prednisone tapers and

now I take 5 mg a day. This afternoon I started getting more mouth ulcers.

Now I have like 6, and they just keep popping up. Actually my mouth tingles

just a little also now that I really think about it. I did this before my

pregnancy with Relafen (I think). It was a NSAID. So now I can not take a

lot of those. I also take synthroid. I can not find mouth ulcers listed as

a side effect. I go back to my dr on Tuesday. Should I just let this go

until then or should I call the dr. Do rheumatologist go on call on the

weekend or should I just call my gp?

Thanks,

G