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Posted 7/5/2013 6:38 PM (GMT 0)
Hello folks,

I am just curious if this is an early warning for something.

I am in remission at the moment, with 1.5g of Sulfasalazine, 150mg of Imuran and one Canasa daily. Since a week or so, I am in quite a lot of body pain. I admit that my lifestyle is sedentary (in front of the laptop almost all day long) but the body ache is little too much to handle, feels like muscle cramp or irritation.
My overall pain threshold has gone down, so a little pain and I have difficulty handling it.

I am on daily 400mg of Mg-Citrate, Vitamin shoppe Bromelain and Costco Fish oil (not the cheaper variety)

Any idea what is going on?
Posted 7/5/2013 7:54 PM (GMT 0)
this would worry me. My main complaint for many years was joint pain, and at its worse I really couldn't function at all. Body ache sounds a little different and perhaps you simply have a viral infection - influenza is notorious for body ache, but you say you've had it a week and you don't report a fever, so that's confusing.

If you think you're just stiff from being too sedentary, then by all means get more active this weekend and see if that helps!
Posted 7/5/2013 10:58 PM (GMT 0)
Go and have your blood drawn, you should probably be doing that every few months because you are on Imuran. They might be able to tell why you are having pains from your results.
Posted 7/6/2013 3:09 AM (GMT 0)
I went through a periods when I first start new meds like asacol and when I was tapering off predisone there wasn't nothing I côuld do but just accept it and rest, it eventually went away
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