hydroxychloroquine and meloxicam

Hydroxychloroquine-also called plaquinel, is my all time favorite drug. It helps get rid of the RA fatigue. It is pretty subtle though and takes a while to work. It also made me dizzy, nausious for a while-that goes away and so does the fatigue cased by the RA. It also helps with the morning stiffness.
Did you get your eyes tested before starting it? Please do that-it is extreemly rare but plaq can cause reversible damage to your eyes so visual field and slit lamp now and every six months or year depending on your docs recomendation.

Meloxicam-Mobic, is a non steroidal anti inflamatory drug used to reduce inflamation and a bit of a pain reliever (like advil). It did nothing for me and is also one of the few NSAIDS that I didn't have side effects with. I switched to Sulindac.
NSAIDS are funny, one person will do really well on one of them-that does nothing for someone else. You may have to try a few different ones before finding one that works well for you.
My biggest question is why are you taking it as needed-most of us require an NSAID every day unless we are on biologics.

Hello itsallgood,

 I was recently put on plaquenil like 5 days ago and had to stop taking it, I was on 200mg X2 daily. Since I was coming off Tramadol I ignored the weird issues for two days. This morning I called my rhuemy and told the nurse about my swollen burny, itchy tongue and my nose and butterfly rash sweating. No more plaquenil for me...boooo it was supposed to have been a good drug for me (I have RA and SLE). I hope you have a decent enough relation with your rhuematolgist or at least his office to call when you have questions. this site is very good about helping out. Don't be afraid to look online about the drug issues. That's how I found my itchy tongue was not a good sign.lol

Cellophanemanghost, I believe you are right about taking into consideration of a person's build, my doc started doing that for me when I was on methotrexate during my second month on it.

As for my dealing with plaquenil, I noticed some changes about being able to move with out too much pain in the first 8-10 hours. Probably rare but, I have a high metabolism and am rather on the thin side. It would've been nice to have been able to stay on it, since I am weird about drug tolerances and my specific issues with my diseases, I do not have many options.

I would suggest doing the eye exam. If anything it'll give you a baseline of your eyes for future issues. I now have fuzzy vision more than likely from the methotrexate.

I hope you fare better than me on it!!!

GOOD LUCK