hi, Straydog, I have tried all three TNF blockers humira, enbrel and remicade, rejected the lot so it is pills for me now, more and more pills little ones medium ones and ones as big as suppositries...
thankyou for a warm welcome back everyone and my move south is to NSW Australia I just can not seem to handle the hot humid climates anymore. Look forward to talking to everyone again thanks...
Hi everyone I have been away for sometime my pain has been hard to manage but getting by I am over my rhuemy as I will not get back in to see him for quite a few months now and the pain and swelling...
Hi Butterflygrrrl, It has been a struggle and when I think I am finaly in control something new turns up and it all starts again. That is the first time I have heard of the pain easing off after 50...
Gday pappardelle i have gall bladder disease and IBS the doctors could not explain to me why i had a high fever and stabbing pain and diahorea they did a ultrasound and heaps of bloods find out. they...
Gday Catmom5 sorry i have not written back but my son has just had a operation to remove his wisdom teeth all four had to be cut out under general anesthetic so because he has a heart condition we...
Hi Everyone thankyou for your fantastic advice and I appreciate all the support. I know the doc said I need a full face mask but as yet I am still waiting on the specialist to organise my visit to...
Breath in, Breath out, breath in hold for 5 seconds, breath out slowly. The pain you are feeling in your cuts can be caused by a couple of things, Sweat, or dirt still in the cut and the best way to...
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Thankyou for your advice, starting to relax a little now. It is just that these last few months have been very difficult as my body has deteriated very fast any change starts the oh no switch. Thanks...
without a good rheumy it makes it very hard but I have come accross some doctors who like to go outside there worlds and try to help in more ways if you can find one of these docs you might get...
65%. _______________________________________________________________________________ Ankylosing Spondylitis, Hypertension, type2 Diabeties, mild epilepsy My medications are Salazopyrin 3000mg,...
I no what your on about they call me the human barrometer, I start swelling everywhere and the pain goes up It has to be the low pressure that does it, I just use the hot bath and up the pain meds...
Thankyou all so much and now we can prepare ourselves for wednesday, The docs from Rockhampton base rang us and said they were not happy with the pre op that our local hospital had done so we must go...
G'day soxx, I too started out with bad leg pains and weakness in my legs and sometimes it can be caused from somewhere else like hips or back and it may not have shown its head yet and it is good to...
www.emedicinehealth.com/understanding_x-rays This might help under stand where I am comming from...
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/community/emoticons/smile.gif Feeling better (I can see clearly now the rain has gone, I can see all obsticles in my way, gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, gonna be a bright bright sun...
G'day wow Golitho I can see the glow like a sunrise in the south. I just had six more X-RAYS myself. Yeh its got to be the pills or mabey stress too....
Thanks Phishbowl I guess I'm just sick of the pricks and jabs and pills they get you down when everything hurts when the body gets tender. Yes, I do exercise as much as possible but the AS slows that...
Thanks, he goes in wednesday and they said they are going to knock him out as they are not showing through let you know how he goes...
Going a bit mental tonight skin crawling I feel as though someone is watching me but there is know one there, like dread is around me I am sure it is the pills as this happens more and more lately or...
NSAIDs well you know theirs already. That includes increased risk of cancer but we must way up the differences and what will work on you and your life style. you should start slow and ask questions...
Father john has it pam, we mere males must listen and listen well, yes dear no dear you know what I mean. I still like the old favorites in mens after shave like old spice and brut, there was a new...
Has anyone had this done and how long will it take to heal? _______________________________________________________________________________ Ankylosing Spondylitis, Hypertension, type2 Diabeties,...
_______________________________________________________________________________ Ankylosing Spondylitis, Hypertension, type2 Diabeties, mild epilepsy My medications are Salazopyrin 3000mg, plaquinal...
I have Ankylosing Spondalytis and before I used the TNF blocker drugs the pain used to be severe in both hips down bowth legs the doc said it was sciatic nerve in both sides and hip pain from fluid...
that was supposed to be from the Reverend but my wife was still logged in ooops!...
That was supposed to be from the reverend but my wife was still signed in oops!...
G'day Skeye I have found with Morphine that I must take additional pain relief with it just by itself it does didly squat. Tremil or codien and plaquinal togeather with morphine sort of work but...
Thanks TayIsa are there any more poets out there who can't sleep....
Does anyone use the chay room around here...
[u] [b][u]Thunder & Rain or Rolling in Pain [/b] We see the clouds on the horizon As I take my Salazopyrin The thunder starts to roll All the drugs have taken toll The lightning starts flashing...
Understand Michele all too well, I hope everything with your Mum goes well and your new Rheumy. When I started at Rheumys I had to travel 5 Hours south to the sunshine coast it was terrable as the...
[u]Thunder & Rain or Rolling in Pain [/b] We see the clouds on the horizon As I take my Salazopyrin The thunder starts to roll All the drugs have taken toll The lightning starts flashing As I...
G'day Golitho, Until I joined HealingWell.com I had never found so many Australians on one sight fabulas. Anyway glad to hear from you and it is a drag not being able to increase TNF injection...
Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) and depending on severity which yours sounds severe, drugs such as TNF blockers, read below. Tumor necrosis factor: A member of a superfamily of...
G'day 1stubbornRAwomen and welcome, I feel your pain, I have superficial hemangioma which are blood red lumps on my skin I had 1 or 2 on my body before the 3 TNF blockers Humira Enbrel and the third...
Just a little addition I'm 37 so there are a lot of years ahead that I would rather have pain control and be able to live than in a wheel chair staring at the wall....
G'day everyone I have seen my roomy again on friday just gone and have gotten no further. He said that he sent a letter to my GP asking him to alter my meds and ask for a heap of tests, well the GP...
thanks trekfan Will do, did you have the shortness of breath through the day and sometiimes night. Live long and prosper...
I used a tablet called champix to take off the edge worked great Don't know if you can get them out of Australia though, Good for you...
My medications are Salazopyrin 3000mg, plaquinal 100mg, morphine 40mg,coversyl 10mg, diaformin sr 3000mg, actrapid injection sliding scale + 6 units in morning, lantos solostar 16 units,epilum 400mg,...
I get pain in my chest like severe intergestion it radiates through my left shoulder and into my neck then seems to cover my upper torso, when I try to sleep it keeps me aroused so I can't sleep and...
Yes I have had gandlion cysts and you can not do anything much with them when they get bad you can go to a doctor and get them syringed but other than that you can't do too much with them I have...
I was on enbrel injections remicaide infusions and the last one was Humira injection my body rejected them all so now I am back on tablets. The best was enbrel I could realy feel it work. Thanks...
G'day from down under, Since being treated I have found that these two are almost the same thing my sister has RA and AS but has no deformed gene hlab 27 gene as I have But I do not have RA. Do...
to becoming undone I was on Tnf blockers for about 2 years and in some cases if you are diagnosed early they can help by removing the fluid which causes most of the problem and if you can do this you...
Hi everyone, having a slow cold stiff night with lots of cramps, just the usual really. I like your ideas on the medi alert thing for meds you should not be given and I am going to ask my doctor for...
G'day mates from down under, thanks for your welcome and look forward to finding some answers and hope that i may be able to help others as well with AS i will look up some info on AS and post links...