Hi. I have AS too. From what I understand, it's just reaaaallly hard to treat. It doesn't generally respond as well as RA does to treatments, according to my rheumatologist. My previous...
Have you ever had your bladder checked out? I have interstitial cystitis, and it really hurts to have sex. It feels like it's coming from around the vagina, but I guess that is referred pain. So they...
You're moving into a land of both shadow and light, of weeping and of compulsively re-caulking the shower at 4 am. You've just crossed over into the...Predni-Zone! One would think I'd be used to...
I have to take the dissolvable ones, because I'm allergic to the lactose in the tablets. No amount of sugar and "grape flavoring" gets rid of that prednisone taste tho! I have discovered that an...
I had the same trouble with Remicade, Enbrel and Humira, which I also took for AS. My doctor tried to premedicate me, which is giving a person antihistimines and/or steroids before the injection,like...
Has anyone with a dairy allergy found a type of prednisone they can take? If not prednisone, which steroid did you take? I didn't realize it was in all the tablets and I'm having a reaction now from...
I have costrochrondritis and I thought that the mammogram was tolerable. It wasn't agony, it wasn't great, but it was OK. I was more sore for a couple days, but it wasn't anything I couldn't handle....
Yes, I nearly died. The first reaction was big, but then they had me premedicate with benaryl and tylenol, and they gave me a streroid shot at the infusion room. However, I had a huge, terrible...
I did tell her about it. I don't know if she ever tried it or not...I hope she will!...
I think mtx is a tool of the devil. I have kidney and liver damage even tho I went in every month for my bloodwork and it was generally ok. My GI thinks I've got drug induced hep but I'm scared of...
Entocort didn't give me the crazy steroid hunger at all. I didn't even get water weight, so no moon face. Some people still have the same old side effects, but my dr said that almost all his patients...
There's this woman on Yahoo Answers who is having a majorly hard time. She is waiting for a colonoscopy and dx. and just keeps posting. She's so scared! I feel silly because I keep answering her and...
What are your symptoms? I am thinking I do but my doctors are not being much help and all I can find online is a vague list of symptoms I already had like malaise and fatigue. I was just wondering if...
Veronica-- Not too sound really freaky, but I really think the biggest reason I have been given sickness as a sort of life challenge is because refusing to ask for help is one of my biggest...
Has anyone here ever had pain in their kidneys or other symptoms of kidney disease from an food allergy? I've seen some references to this on different websites and I understand how it could happen,...
I was diagnosed with Barrett's esophagus several years ago--I also have Crohn's disease and those attacks always bring heartburn. The last few months I have had the lymph nodes in my neck swell up...