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Hi,

After over a year, I did blood work and xray of a hip that has me on a walker

for several months. (4yrs pretty severe RA) Blood work was good. SED rate was

61 (0-30 scale) This shocked me because I've had much less SED rate, and more

pain. Could this be from AP (now on my 8th week doing 200mg MWF) added 4.5 LDN

about 4 weeks ago?

My most concern, and great disappointment, was hip xray showed severe

degeneration and a hip replacement was recommended. With all else going on with

me, I'm not in physical condition to think of a replacement at this time. In

the meantime, I'll have home PT come to help strengthen muscles around hip. Who

has gone through this, and any other alternative besides hip replacement?

Thank you so much for your help and feedback. Sally

rheumatic Re: Thrush

In case it's helpful to anyone, using the prescription my doctor wrote (which

provided plenty of refills), I took one tablet of 150mg fluconazole daily for 8

days to cure thrush. The day after I stopped I didn't notice any problems, but

the next day I felt it returning, and the next day after that (today), it's

obviously coming back and pretty rapidly. Talked to my doc and I'm going to take

it daily for another 1 week and possibly 2. I'm thinking that if taking

fluconazole only with a pretty severe case of thrush, taking it for " at least 2

weeks " as the Mayo website listed is what it's going to require, at least in my

case. Next time I'll ask about Amoxil and definitely ask him to include the

Nilstat/nystatin drops -- those sound heavenly right about now!

I originally decided to take a break from my Minocin for a week while I got rid

of this, but now wondering if it really matters and would hate to have my RA

symptoms worsten in the meantime. Any input on that would be great.

Thanks again to all of you out there who help so many!

Shelle