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Posted 10/8/2014 1:51 AM (GMT 0)
I'm definitely in a little flare since early September. I don't care what my RD thinks. On my quarterly visit in Sept. that day I was painless. I didn't bother to tell him that in the days, weeks preceding I was having a sprained thumbs/wrists pain often. He never acknowledges my complaints as RA symptoms. He'll be more interested in the fact I have no sense of smell and direct me to an ENT or this time my slighty elevated calcium levels warrant a parathyroid test. Bah- I lost the lab autho and never bothered to go. Now my wrists feel sprained starting after dinner, all thru the night, when I first wake and then gradually eases during the day.
Whatever. I should be keeping a record of how many days it's lasting etc...but for what? So I can dwell on it?
Posted 10/8/2014 4:41 AM (GMT 0)
I'm new to this.....is a sprained wrist feeling important to document for rheumy?
I don't know what's important RA wise.

If your doctor is ignoring your symptoms then if I was you I would change rheumys.
Posted 10/8/2014 7:00 PM (GMT 0)
I have to agre with Joy/Couchtater... You need a better doctor! your doctor needs to listen to you. mine does and he tries to help me...Maybe look into another RD and trying to get a switch to a better doctor...it saddens me that some doctors just really only want the money, those doctor should be in jail or dis barred or their licenses taken away ... Doctor need to have compassion! or who will take care of them!
Posted 10/9/2014 1:34 AM (GMT 0)
ugggh- tonight my shoulder is so bad I broke down and took a vicodin. Both wrists and sides of my hand are tender but I don't have the sprain feel. This morning the left wrist hand felt sprained until about 10 and the shoulder was killing all day.

I have a follow up BP appt. with my GP tomorrow. I will mention to her and see what she says. She is who I started with when I had my onset of RA. She recognized it because her dad has RA. She got me right into a RD even tho there was a waiting list because I was so severe. I am seronegative but at onset I had humongous swelling and inflammation markers were off the charts. First RD was a nightmare. Full of herself and didn't believe in pain meds. I got on a waiting list for my current RD.
When I got in with him he immediately upped my prednisone to 40 mgs a day and I turned the corner and got "well" He was very attentive and said I presented with the worst case of RA that he had ever seen.
After a year and a half of max dose MTX and weaning off the prednisone my liver enzymes elevated. He took me off the MTX to see if they would go down. They did. We also found that I felt no worse off the MTX than on. So he said stay off. Mind you that doesn't mean I feel well.
However he seems to have taken the mindset that since I didn't go back to the severe symptoms when off MTX I don't have RA?
He still insists on seeing me every 3 months.
Even my GP said last time I saw her that if I were to change RD's looking the way I do- they would never believe I have RA because I'm seronegative. So I don't bother to change.
I don't care what I look like- I wish someone could live in my body and they would know.
Posted 10/9/2014 5:54 AM (GMT 0)
Sorry you feeling so bad.
We've got a hard road to travel some days.

I hope the pains subside and you're able to get a good rest tonight.

((((((((Gentle hug))))))))
Posted 10/9/2014 4:40 PM (GMT 0)
Hopefully the doctor you see tomorow can get you into a better Ra doctor, I'm also sero negative with lots of inflammation. However, when I was on the mtx, I had skinny knee's so it did reduce the inflammation for me, now that I've been off the mtx since May my knee's are so very swollen again....I really want skinny knees for next year at my daughter's wedding.
I'm really surprised you didn't tell if the mtx had helped, kinda perplexing but not a game changer. Maybe see about bloodwork again to see if anything shows up...or updated mri's...
What would be really nice for me is to be able to do a normals day walking without my feet hurting and swollen at the end of the day! RA in any form sucks, hope you can get info tomorrow for a better doctor...So very sorry your doctors don't listen...Prayers that your doctor's appointment tomorrow works out better for you and that your doing better soon!
Posted 10/10/2014 12:38 AM (GMT 0)
Why is it that my body betrays me whenever I have a doctor appt.? Just like a car that's making a big noise until you take it into the mechanic and there's nothing to hear...
Last night I took the vicodin and sprayed my shoulder down good with icy hot before I went to bed. I woke up with very diminished pain and almost all my range of motion.
BP was a little elevated 136/89.
Told her about what was going on the bad shoulder and the sprain feel and showed her where the pain was down the tendon of right before the wrist and all along the sides of my hands down my pinky. I asked can this be from my neck? She said the stenosis could cause such pain but it wouldn't be symmetrical. She says she believes I do still have RA and that just because it has been quiet it doesn't been it's gone or it isn't going to come back bad again.
She said with my clean bloodwork and the way I look if I went to another RD they would say the same as my current RD. She said the same thing has happened to her father who was on Enbrel until he got an infection on his face. They took him off and his blood work is clean and he is in a remission and they are saying he never has RA. But they have a family history of it and he knows and she knows he has it. She says a lot of drs. try to put all RA sufferers in the same mold and it really does vary from person to person.
Posted 10/10/2014 2:13 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, I agree RA does vary from person to person. I have very physically seen swelling, knee's feet and sometimes my hands and they hurt. knee's don't hurt so much...but are swollen. Sounds like your visit today was a good one. Sorry your not getting a new referral...wish there was a way I could help.
If doctor's only knew how much we hurt! How it is a struggle to keep appointments, to even get up in the mornings, just because we can make it to your appointment doesn't mean in any way that we are doing good...
For now keep a journal and clearly show the bad days like yesterday. My bloodwork comes back clean too, so do x-rays except of my neck. Mri's and EMG's all show damage ...Maybe ask about getting a hand or shoulder mri done...Speak up at your next RD appointment and say "I want a shoulder MRI" and keep repeating it...Stay on top of this and sending you many prayers and well wishes...
Posted 11/18/2014 4:54 AM (GMT 0)
Do you think it might be carpal tunnel? Since getting RA, my wrists ache from carpal tunnel. I probably shouldn't type at all, but even on days I don't, my wrists and forearms will kill at night. I use a heating pad, and it helps a little. I agree with everyone; you need a new RA doc. I am very happy with mine. Take your regular doc's recommendations, or go to someplace like HealthGrades and look at doctors in your area with high ratings.
Posted 11/21/2014 2:57 AM (GMT 0)
Hi all.
Wow. I did not realize my flare has been going on this long. I have started documenting since the beginning of November. Did not realize this started early Oct.
And it's getting worse and worse. My hands are so painful. I just had a heck of a time removing my wedding rings. I see a swell across my knuckles and the top of each hand knuckle is red. When I bend the finger knuckles it hurts so bad all the way to my thumbs and wrists which feel sprained.
I should really call the doctor and go in while I have some visuals. I have taken pictures.
Posted 11/24/2014 5:40 PM (GMT 0)
Don't know if this will help but I had excruciating pain in the tendon on the thumb side if my right wrist I went to a hand specialist. Turned out to be De Quervain tendonitis. One steroid injection and it was as good as new in a few days. Hope you feel better soon. I too have been told yes RA no RA yes RA no RA. Finally found a good rheumatologist and am getting treatment been suffering since 2006. Best of luck to you!
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