Finally Saw the Rheumy

[Guest guest]

Well all I finally saw the Rheumy today. Please keep in mind I have

been a flare since Friday Jan 19th. I called several times asking for

pain relief and some help and kept getting pushed off. Finally middle

of last week she called in vicodin. It made me nuts; I was so angry and

very grumpy. So today when I saw her she said " Wow you are in a major

flare!!! " I just looked at her dumbfounded. So I informed her that we

are infact getting more aggressive with my treatment or I am going to

go somewhere else with a doctor that is willing be aggressive with my

treatment.

She started me on MTX orally for the first month; and then probably

injections. She changed my prednisone to Medrol since it seems that I

am not able to absorb prednisone. She added folic acid and changed my

vicodin to darvocet. She also kept me on plaquenil. So I guess we will

see what is going on in a few weeks. But I hope that this pushes things

along for me and I start to get some relief. Thank you all for kind

thoughts and messages of hope to get me through this.

Hugs to all,

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 1/29/07 2:54:04 PM, bp101_brat@... writes:

> She changed my prednisone to Medrol since it seems that I

> am not able to absorb prednisone. She added folic acid and changed my

> vicodin to darvocet.

>

How could she tell you weren't absorbing prednisone?

Also I don't think Darvocet compares to Vicodin....let us know what you

think.

Hugs,

Pris

[Guest guest]

I no it is so up setting when the Dr will not here what you have to

say but sometimes it is th Office staff that does not get it over to

the DR right! all the same it should not took that long to see the Dr

hope you are doing better soon!

--- In , " bp101_brat " <bp101_brat@...>

wrote:

>

> Well all I finally saw the Rheumy today. Please keep in mind I have

> been a flare since Friday Jan 19th. I called several times asking

for

> pain relief and some help and kept getting pushed off. Finally

middle

> of last week she called in vicodin. It made me nuts; I was so angry

and

> very grumpy. So today when I saw her she said " Wow you are in a

major

> flare!!! " I just looked at her dumbfounded. So I informed her that

we

> are infact getting more aggressive with my treatment or I am going

to

> go somewhere else with a doctor that is willing be aggressive with

my

> treatment.

> She started me on MTX orally for the first month; and then probably

> injections. She changed my prednisone to Medrol since it seems that

I

> am not able to absorb prednisone. She added folic acid and changed

my

> vicodin to darvocet. She also kept me on plaquenil. So I guess we

will

> see what is going on in a few weeks. But I hope that this pushes

things

> along for me and I start to get some relief. Thank you all for kind

> thoughts and messages of hope to get me through this.

> Hugs to all,

>

>