My Introduction

[Guest guest]

I am new to this groupand new to the effects of RA,but no stanger to

the pain.

I have 3 different diagnosis from 3 different drs.

One says it is bursitis

Another says degenerative Joint disease

Yesterday, i have RA

i have had aches and pains from an injury to my shoulder in 2002,so i

know pain;but i can tell you that it is NOTHING compared to the pain i

feel everyday.I have told the drs i prefer to have twins than to have

this sort of pain.

It really started bad in nov 07.I woke up one morning, i could not move

my right arm,could not lift it,couldnt move my hand,etc

fingers, ...nothing.that was the first dr i saw that said bursitis,gave

me a shot in the hip and some pain pills.

all of these aches and pains were constant,no relief;with an exception

of a couple of days.When i resumed my normal household duties,such as

washing dishes,here it came again.so i go see the family dr and i am

given predisone and cataflan.no help whatsoever.i was out of work from

the first drs visit,and when i return to work with a drs excuse i get

layed off from my job,and i am still layed off.

all of this week both of my hands,fingers,knuckles are swollen i cant

move them.My left shoulder is killing me,burning and numbed from the

top of the shoulder to my fingertips,the back of my right thigh is

swollen and so is both of my ankles and the side of my right foor feels

swollen,i am limping.i call the dr and i get no results as he says the

cataflan and predisone should do it. Meanwhile, i have not slept in the

bed for days,exhausted from the pain...

yesterday, i go to the ER doctor at the local hospital, and he starts

shouting at me(i have never seen this dr before in my life)saying that

he did not know why i was at the er,as it was not a emergency.He said

there is nothing he can do for me,no tests to run,only for me to go to

the dr that prescribed predisone and cataflan.I told him i am

unsatisfied with my treatment and want a referral to a specialist that

can confirm what exactly is wrong with me.i was crying by this time

because of the terrible pain i was in.I did not want to go to the er

because i knew it would be a waste of money,but my husband insisted;and

i did want the pain to diappear.

Does anyone have any information that may be helpful to me.I am so

desperate at this point,that i have signed up for clinical trials for

RA..

Sorry to be so long winded,but i am exhausted,tired and sick of drs

that i believe does not care how much a person is suffering.