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Jibagar · Mar 13, 2010, 11:56 AM

Hello guys. Been having pain for a long time now. It started as a swell on my left knee. The doctor told me its RA (rheumatoid arthritis). It got cured. Then later after some years , I developed hip pain. Which later developed into back pain. Now its worst. I have pain all over my body. My hip, ribs, back, shoulders and neck. Getting a decent Sleep is a problem

Went to neurologist and did both x-ray and MRI but no shocking results. The doctor is saying am OK.

He sent me for 15 days of physiotherapy with medication. Which I did both. Got relief which lasted for only a month or so.

What could I be suffering from? Is it RA (rheumatoid arthritis).Are doctors overlooking this possibility? Coz have never got involved in an accident.

please Advice :confused:

tickle · Mar 13, 2010, 12:13 PM

Unfortunately if it was RA, an auto immune disease, causing your joints to become inflamed, ultimately effect your ligaments and muscles, therefore the extreme pain, never gets cured once you are diagnosed with it. A very painful disease that actually attacks your own immune system. You didn't have to have been involved in an accident to have RA; it is detected by a simple blood test.

There are prescription drugs for RA, but the pain subsides and returns throughout a lifetime. I would get a second opinion and good blood tests. They have to know what they are looking for. Your previous medical records would assist them.

Tick

tickle · Mar 13, 2010, 01:37 PM

J, you have to explore every possibility. That's why I said get a second opinion, because they didn't diagnose mine immediately. Until I went to a specialist in RA medicine. Thankfully mine comes and go, long periods between, but now at nearing 68 becoming a little more impossible to deal with as the years go by, but I still keep working.

Tick

Jibagar · Mar 14, 2010, 08:20 AM

Thanks tickle for your expert opinion. Now I think I know where to start. Its been years now.

tickle · Mar 14, 2010, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by Jibagar

Thanks tickle for ur expert opinion. Now i think i know where to start. Its been years now.

Jibagar, it is an opinion based on personal experience and clients I have been seeing for a number of years with RA. I am a certified Personal Support Worker with the Cdn. Red Cross and a Registered Nurses' Assistant and It is first hand information. Not to be construed as medical advice as we cannot diagnose here or offer information on medications. I hope I offered enough information for you to make an informed decision about RA as it pertains to you.

Tick

Jibagar · Mar 14, 2010, 11:09 AM

U don't know how much uv helped me. Thnak u so much