Joint pain

As of this morning I have severe joint pain in both my ankles. Walking hurts and to the touch it feels severely bruised. My leg bone towards my knee on both legs are sore and feel bruised to the touch as well. Do you suggest remicade being the culprit? (I've had three doses). The only other drug I'm taking is uceris which I just started three days ago, but I doubt that would cause the pain regardless. I've been having muscle aches prior to this for a while now too. I doubt it's the disease itself considering I never felt this even at the worse of a flare. If it's suspected to be the remicade I heard they stop it? Which I don't think it's done anything for me anyways so it's not gonna break me if they decide to. Can this be something serious if it's remicade related? Let me know your opinions, thank you!

The joint pain is most likely from tapering too fast off your IV steroids.

I highly doubt it is the Uceris. Uceris does not have systemic effects. I doubt it is the Remicade either. Not a common listed side effect.

Severe joint pain is now recognized as a potential adverse effect of Remicade and the other anti-TNF drugs, including Humira. It's just not well publicized yet. It often kicks in within the first six months of treatment but can happen much earlier or later.

Requires extensive differential diagnosis. Alternatively, it could be from a too-rapid prednisone taper, or extra-intestinal manifestations of UC, or an underlying condition that Remicade triggered (which is potentially more serious), etc.

Please see our thread here: 'Severe joint pain, stopped Remicade, so sad'. It reflects a lot of what we learned from medical journals and our different experiences over the past two years.

Rheumatologists (and later depending on what's discovered also neurologists) tend to be much more helpful than gastroenterologists in sorting this out, as they know how to assess what's going on through the requisite labs and clinical features. You can keep a journal that locates the pains, describes whether it's ache or sharp or burning, whether it moves around, whether it comes and goes or it persists and is excruciating to the point that it's deliberating and it hurts to move or just lie still. That'll be most helpful to them in determining what's going on. Most of all, you have to trust your body and be your own advocate on this, since others tend to dismiss it as 'aches and pains,' when there are times it is so not that.

I hope in your case it'll resolve quickly.

I sincerely apologize that my wording wasn't sufficiently nuanced. So I edited the post.

Many of the drugs they give us have potential adverse effects. The most challenging part in this instance is that we patients were suffering and reported what was going on before the doctors believed us. We had our "complaints" dismissed.

I think it's helpful to share this information so we can be aware of what could be happening in case something puzzling develops. Then we can make informed choices, including knowing where to get help for differential diagnoses and making a decision to stop taking a specific drug - if it comes to that.