New to this and feel awful!

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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.