Re: New to this and feel awful!

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Hi, I too was recently diagnosed and sound alot like you. I have

pain almost daily in my feet (but at this point it's tolerable and

varies in severity) but everywherelse tends to just flare a bit here

& there...and just occassionaly flare really bad where it

temporarily wipes me out with pain; then miracuously it's gone

again. The only on going pain is in my feet. I'm on mobic &

plaquenil and really haven't seen an improvement yet. I've been on

mobic about 4 months and the plaquenil about 1 month. I think I have

seen an improvement in my fatigue though. I know I've felt EXHAUSTED

for about the past 6/7 months and finally feel some relief, which I

can only think is the meds.

Hope that helps, I think I've had a flare, at least a minor one in

each joint...including the jaw (which scares me), but I try to keep

a positive attitude about it and I think that helps. With all the

improvements and meds available today I try to stay confident that

I'll find something that works for me

> Hi I posted not too long ago. Had pain in fingers, hands feet,

> knees, went to dr. sent me to Rheumy. Did blood work, RA test

> negative but other tests showed something out of wack - Dr. based

on

> symptons is pretty sure I have RA, said it may not show up for a

> while in blood work. Also took hand x-rays, finger showing some

> arthritis. Based on pain and symptons in hands pretty sure may be

> some carpel tunnel going on but doesn't want to test for that now -

> says its painful. Started me out on Vioxx - no improvement. Now

I'm

> on celebrex was improvement 1st month but this past week or so I'm

> not doing good. Everything hurts on me. hands, fingers, knees,

> bottoms of feet, even elbows. I'm so new to this. I see you all

> posting about flare ups, is there good and bad times and do they

know

> what triggers this? Also is it normal for the medicine to work

the

> first month or two and then not or could this just be one of those

> flare ups. I read everyone elses post and am grateful that I'm

just

> on celebrex right now. But am scared that this isn't working. My

> mom says I need to exercise. I feel like a mack truck has run me

> over the last few days. Do you all exercise when you are feeling

> this bad? Also did the RA test show negative for any of you at

> first? He also mentioned Lupus once, but still says he's pretty

sure

> its RA based on all my symptons etc. Thanks for the website.