Scared, 5mg Predisone and side effects.....Genes.........

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Hello Dennis, Group and all the friends :

Thanks a lot for your updates and information Predisone.

Its good to know 2 things, we are now walking alone and there is lot

of people who are sharing their experiences with us.This RA brings

all of us together . ( Eventhough it affects my wife and not me, I

dont think that makes a difference for me personally).

Just to introduce ourselves 1st. We are blessed with 2 kids a boy and

a girl. Life had been so smooth until the last 2 months when my wife

in late 20's after giving birth to our son started to have problem

with inflammation and pain in the early morning. I was and had been

always an optimist about what brings out of life.

But after the blood examination on the spe 13th life changed

totally. Now I am scared of every single side affect I read out of

medicines , the future of our kids. May be, we can call it scared

unto death..

As i mentioned in the previous mail . My wife's doses are 1.5g

Sulfazaline, 400mg plaquenil, 10mg MTX with Calcium, Folic acid, Fish

oil and 5mg of Predisone.

Now , i start to wonder , why it is my wife.......and the other

question, why not she?

To my question. Is RA a Gentic disease? do we inherit and pass it on

to children. My wife's family had totally no idea of what RA is and i

believe she is the 1st one at least in their immediate

family....aunt , uncle, cousin, brother, sister , father ,

mother....and nobody has it.

I am not in self pity, just to understand.....is it a genetic

disease??

Thanks and regards

LL