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Posted 8/3/2011 9:10 PM (GMT 0)
My fiance has been diagnosed with RA but she is still getting more tests and all of this is taking time.
She had been seen by a pain management doctor for a long time due to other issues and has had her on many different meds including; hydrocodone, morphine sulfate, fentanyl patch, Dilaudid. None have made a night a day difference they have helped some but it seems based on the weather and other factors she has flare ups and she ends taking more than prescribed as she has I high tolerance. Any advice as to pain meds that seem to work better for RA. I know it is subjective to each person but I am just trying to get any thoughts as to personal success from others. Thanks for any help.
Posted 8/4/2011 1:57 AM (GMT 0)
Honest to God during my horrific onset nothing touched my pain. Oxycontin took the edge off but never lasted til the next dosage time. What helped me was a mega dose of prednisone (40 mgs. a day) which my dr. said he used to re-trip my immune system. Overnight I was like 80% better- to me it felt like a miracle. Within 2 weeks I was off all pain meds- even over the counters. Took me about 1 1/2 years to wean off the prednisone though. Maybe she can ask her doctor about this option?
Posted 8/4/2011 2:21 PM (GMT 0)
Wow, those are some pretty heavy duty pain meds! But like the other poster said, pain meds really don't work for RA and inflammation in general.  To get it under control , prednisone works wonders and really that is how one can tell if it is inflammation driven in the first place to be quite honest.
Posted 8/5/2011 5:34 AM (GMT 0)
If you don't want to go the drug route try bromelain for inflammation. It's pineapple enzymes
an a natural anti-inflammatory. Yucca Root is a natural steroid. Gin and Raisins REALLY works.
Take golden raisins and soak them for a week and take 9 a day. I don't like the taste or texture
so I rinse them off and take them like pills. I find if I take them at night and keep them in the
fridge they seem to work better.
The weather fronts are from the barometric pressure on the joints. I've had RA for 50 years now
and I'm 57....a long time to hurt. I've tried just about everything out there and rely on hydrocordone
for what I can't control with suppliments. I have arthritis, fibro, scolosis, sciatica, heart issues,
bone spurs, tinnitus (arthritis in ears!!), bunions, and tons of lipomas. The list goes on but these
are the major ones. With all of this the hydrocordone is the only dr med I take.
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