Guest guest Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Hi everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself. I've looked into a lot of online discussion groups for RA but this is the first one I've ever posted to. I think the encouragement and support shown by everyone is wonderful. I'm 28 years old and was diagnosed with RA and Fibromyalgia last month after an MRI. I've had problems for the last couple of years. I was diagnosed with endometriosis after I had my daughter, Janet, who will be three next month. I had a complete hysterectomy when I was 27. My doctors suspected I had RA but the blood tests came back clear though I was severly anemic and had to undergo, blood and iron tranfusions, even after the hysterectomy. My hands, wrists and elbows hurt no much but I was just prescribed pain meds and basically told they could do nothing. I was then send to a pain doctor because my gynocologist was worried about me taking the pains med, the same meds he had prescribed. The pain doctor send my to a rheumatologist and then the MRI's were ordered. I've been taking lyrica, cymbalta, amnitriptyline, Lortab 10, Naproxyn, Darvocet, and just started Azulifidine. I've been able to taper off the amount of the pain meds but still have to take them most days. I'm sure everyone could do without my whole medical history but I wanted to introduce myself and tell my story. Thanks for listening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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