Guest guest Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 Hi , what does your rheumatologist say you have? Are your labs and exam consistent with RA? I think being sick and not knowing why is a lot scarier than knowing the diagnosis is RA and having an opponent to fight. I'm a big biologic fan. I have two cousins with RA and our grandmother had RA. My mom has MS, my sister has lupus, and most females are hypothyroid. We are a mess, but with Enbrel, i'm nearly normal Kate F Sent from my iPhone On May 17, 2010, at 4:58 PM, " " <anelica1016@...> wrote: I feel bad for all of you and wonder if I can be strong like you all. I have not had any positive diagnosis as of yet come out in my blood. But since I have hit 40 years old, I have started with pain in my wrists and have operations on them which found severe synovitis and tenosynovitis. When I google it, RA comes up hands down. My middle and ring fingers on both hands in the last year are swollen and the joints kill, like I broke my fingers. My feet and achilees tendon in the a.m. are really bad and stiff that its hard to walk. I am seeing a RA doctor named Dr. Upchurch in Worcester, MA who seems fine so far. She is positive I have something autoimmune and gave me Celebrex which takes the edge off. I get depressed thinking what is going to become of me. My aunt has RA and is in a wheel chair. Its really scary. I just want to be normal and live life, like I am sure all you do. Sometimes you want something to justify this pain to come out diagnostically so you can say see I told you I'm in pain, but in the same breath your scared for anything to come out because its a sentence of whats to become. Thanks for listening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2010 Report Share Posted May 18, 2010 Hi . I was so sorry to read that you are in such pain and suffering daily. If you have read my posts before, you know my feet and ankles were hit the hardest. I know just what you mean when you try to get out of bed, and those darn feet and ankles just are so stiff and painful. I get up very slowly as I am so afraid of falling again.  No one wants this ugly disease. But if you are diagnosed with it, I hope your Rheumy treats it agressively. This will help slow down the disease, and hopefully, you will find the right " cocktail " of meds. so you can have a life again. I have had RA for 6 years, and found my cocktail of meds. about 3 years ago. I thank God I have my life back, as in the beginning I was so bad I was almost in a wheel chair. I could not tolerate the N.E. weather anymore, so I moved from Cape Cod to Florida. That has helped me tremendously.  I know you have some good Drs. in Worcester, and if you can't find a great one, there is always all those great Drs. in town {Boston}. I have been so lucky here in Flordia to find my wonderful, caring, Rheumy. She takes such great care of me. I was flare free for about 1 1/2 years, but just got ove Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2010 Report Share Posted May 18, 2010 Hi, my Rheumatologist doesn't really know what I have. She said it can be frustrating when nothing shows up in the blood but she is trying to treat my symptoms for right now. She is sure it is something autoimmune. Of course, everyone diagnosis you with Fibro when they cannot figure it out. I don't doubt I may have that but Fibro doesn't cause swelling in joints and synovitis. So I see my RA dr. on June 2nd and will go from there. My aunt has RA and my grandmother has been on Oxycontin for so many years due to bad Osteoarthritis. We all have osteoporosis. I was diagnosed with that at 37. I am on prescrip. D which was extremely low. My hands hurt so much without the Celebrex that I could cry. So I have to take it. I am still trying to figure how to use this forum so wasn't able to read your story yet. > > Hi , what does your rheumatologist say you have? Are your labs and exam consistent with RA? I think being sick and not knowing why is a lot scarier than knowing the diagnosis is RA and having an opponent to fight. I'm a big biologic fan. I have two cousins with RA and our grandmother had RA. My mom has MS, my sister has lupus, and most females are hypothyroid. We are a mess, but with Enbrel, i'm nearly normal Kate F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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