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" assembly line doctor' as most are these days. Fifteen minutes or less and I am shown the door.
I feel as if I am on my own and I do not discuss it unless I have to. I have tried, but quickly learned my lesson- to keep my aches to myself.View Thread

As I have, diabetes, frozen shoulder syndrome, serious coronary artery disease and gastric issues. I wouldn't believe me either if I was someone else. It seems more like a soap opera medical drama than reality. I wish it was just a soap opera. I live in constant agony with all the medication and physical restraints that I must endure alone.
I have to 'pretend' when my daughter drops her children off at my house. I have to be the "well grandma.'
My kids have taken a deaf ear and my husband says my illnesses 'turns him off.'
I am left not talking about anything medical with any family members and coping on my own. I cannot find a RA support group in my area either.
I am only 59 and I feel like 100.
So I fake it and smile and endure.View Thread

I too am very concerned; as the only thing that I was told I could take was Mexthrotrexate for my RA. I chose to inject it because of supposedly less side affects and since I already inject insulin; what's the difference?
However, what I want to ask those out there; since this is an inflammatory disease, as is diabetes etc. has anyone gone to a differtent source such as an intergrative doctor or Eastern medicine doctor who to treats the cause-inflamation and why our bodies are so inflammed in the first place?
If so were you successful in NOT taking these nasty drugs?
There is a chinese doctor in my area who does acupunture and blood tests and I have heard he can tell what kinds of foods etc. that are hurting the body, along with acupunture to relieve the pain.
Am I wasting my time and RA is what it is?
I am supposed to start my injections next week and I don't even want to start unless it is the last course of action.
I hear so much advice, I am so confused as to what to do..so right now I feel good and am doing nothing.
Will the RA progress anyway; can it be stopped without killing my immune system?View Thread

I am scared to death about Plaqunil. I know people who took it and called it "poison."
My doctor is awful and will not entertain anything but Plaqunil. I keep telling him that I refuse it and he blows me off. So Tylenol and Advil are my only sources for pain and it sucks.
There has to be a better way for someone like me with so many other diseases to take the pain away.View Thread
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