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It has gone from gout to RA within a year??? Sorry but WTH?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 602914" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>BRMs are not first line of treatment for RA and when going there, it requires extensive medical follow-up (from not having single cavity in your teeth etc.) and is expensive. One of my friends is on them and her yearly co-pay limit (after that medications are paid by public social insurance) that is little less than 1000 dollars doesn't even cover the co-pay of first round of medications in January, and what I have noticed reading posts here, medications are much cheaper in my country than in US.</p><p></p><p>RA, and some other rheumatic diseases presenting first similar like for example ankylosing spondylitis (that is the one my friend has and also difficult child has had a team mate who was on BRMs for that) are common or even very typical with younger people. In ankylosing spondylitis typical new patient is a male under 30, onset is usually in their early twenties but first the symptoms are very vague.</p><p></p><p>However for any rheumatic diseases the first treatment is not BRMs, neither steroid shots. Steroid shots may be needed, if medications don't work, but they only numb, don't treat and they have nasty side effects and can be used only so long. Typical first treatment are antirheumatic drugs like cyclosporin and sulfasalazine. They actually slow the disease down. Pain treatment (which steroid shots count in) is to manage pain when trying to find right combo of medications and non-drug treatments (like exercise, for some diet etc.) that treat the problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 602914, member: 14557"] BRMs are not first line of treatment for RA and when going there, it requires extensive medical follow-up (from not having single cavity in your teeth etc.) and is expensive. One of my friends is on them and her yearly co-pay limit (after that medications are paid by public social insurance) that is little less than 1000 dollars doesn't even cover the co-pay of first round of medications in January, and what I have noticed reading posts here, medications are much cheaper in my country than in US. RA, and some other rheumatic diseases presenting first similar like for example ankylosing spondylitis (that is the one my friend has and also difficult child has had a team mate who was on BRMs for that) are common or even very typical with younger people. In ankylosing spondylitis typical new patient is a male under 30, onset is usually in their early twenties but first the symptoms are very vague. However for any rheumatic diseases the first treatment is not BRMs, neither steroid shots. Steroid shots may be needed, if medications don't work, but they only numb, don't treat and they have nasty side effects and can be used only so long. Typical first treatment are antirheumatic drugs like cyclosporin and sulfasalazine. They actually slow the disease down. Pain treatment (which steroid shots count in) is to manage pain when trying to find right combo of medications and non-drug treatments (like exercise, for some diet etc.) that treat the problem. [/QUOTE]
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