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Hello everyone:

I am a 50 yr old mother of three. I have hashimoto's thyroiditis, I had a

hystrectomy about 2 years ago, so about 3 months ago, when I began to have what

I can only describe as searing, burning bone pain in the long bones of both my

legs, I told my primary care doc, she immediately sent me to my endocrinologist

who then upped my synthroid, to no avail. The searing paid then traveled down

to my knees and then I could no longer sleep, from the throbbin pain, then I was

so dead tired, I almost couldnt function, I took off a week from work and sleep

for 4 days straight, then my hands becme stiff anbd hurt, the bones on the top

of one foot were hurting, i felt like my foot was going to break, I was

miserable and became secrelty very scared (without telling my family), so I went

back to my doctor, she then called a rhemuatologist who suggested cartain blood

tests since autoimmune diseases can causes various ailments, sure enuf, my

rheumatoid factor was sky high and I also had a serious Vit D deficiency. Fst

forward to today, after I see the rhemuatologist. She started me on 5 mgs a day

of prednisone, and I feel so much better, she added 50,00 unit of vit d and I

started 2,000 a dy of fish oil and calcium. I added dark berries every day to

my diet (cherries, blueberries, blackberry). I am afraid of prednisone, because

my kids are asthmatics and I know its not something to stya on for long. It has

been 3 weeks, and I get breakthru in my back and hands, but I feel like a

million times better. This week I am starting methotrexate (after some liver

testing) and I am afraid of the side effects I hear about, but the sering pain

without the drug is so bad< i cant deal with the pain. I saw pain management

specialist. She gave me Flexoril and Mobic, but it didnt do anything, stopped

even making me sleepy after awhile at night (so at least it put me to sleep for

a few days)

I would appreciate any tips or comments.

Thanks sincerely

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