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It has gone from gout to RA within a year??? Sorry but WTH?
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 602929" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>It is sweet and very loving of you to want to make sure he is getting the treatment he needs. It has not really mattered what was going on with my health if one of my kids has a health problems. Heck, five days after having a disk in my neck fused I spent the night with J in the hospital and my surgeon would have had a hissy if he had known. So I COMPLETELY understand why this is important to you.</p><p></p><p>RA is NOT an age related illness. It can strike at ANY age and is far more complex than most people realize. While this could be a misdiagnosis, it also could be true. </p><p></p><p>I highly doubt that an insurance co is going to pay for anyone to give himself steroid shots at home. If a doctor is doing this, easy child/difficult child should RUN like an Olympic sprinter crossed with a cheetah to another doctor. I am NOT joking AT ALL. Steroids are highly dangerous and should never be given outside the dr office. </p><p></p><p>It is much more likely that he is to give himself injections of a biologic medicine. To my knowledge those are the medications most commonly given to yourself to help with RA and other similar conditions. These medications can do absolutely INCREDIBLE things to help, but they can have very serious and long term side effects also. Of course much of that depends on how he reacts to the medicine. Insurance companies do a TON of second guessing the diagnosis's of people and even more if an expensive medication is prescribed. Biologics are VERY expensive and the doctor has to do a bunch of extra paperwork to get them approved for a patient. NOT that this couldn't be the wrong diagnosis and treatment anyway, but rxing these medications is not as easy as rxing many medications. You have to have tried certain other steps and medications and you have to have certain lab tests done and have certain results on those tests. At least the ins co's here demand this because a friend went through this a few mos ago.</p><p></p><p>Do what you need to in order to feel okay that he is getting the right help so that you can concentrate on doing what is needed to beat your cancer! It would be very hard to stop worrying about him to focus on yourself after spending your life first raising your kids and then raising the grandkids. So accept that, and do what needs to be done and take care of yourself!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 602929, member: 1233"] It is sweet and very loving of you to want to make sure he is getting the treatment he needs. It has not really mattered what was going on with my health if one of my kids has a health problems. Heck, five days after having a disk in my neck fused I spent the night with J in the hospital and my surgeon would have had a hissy if he had known. So I COMPLETELY understand why this is important to you. RA is NOT an age related illness. It can strike at ANY age and is far more complex than most people realize. While this could be a misdiagnosis, it also could be true. I highly doubt that an insurance co is going to pay for anyone to give himself steroid shots at home. If a doctor is doing this, easy child/difficult child should RUN like an Olympic sprinter crossed with a cheetah to another doctor. I am NOT joking AT ALL. Steroids are highly dangerous and should never be given outside the dr office. It is much more likely that he is to give himself injections of a biologic medicine. To my knowledge those are the medications most commonly given to yourself to help with RA and other similar conditions. These medications can do absolutely INCREDIBLE things to help, but they can have very serious and long term side effects also. Of course much of that depends on how he reacts to the medicine. Insurance companies do a TON of second guessing the diagnosis's of people and even more if an expensive medication is prescribed. Biologics are VERY expensive and the doctor has to do a bunch of extra paperwork to get them approved for a patient. NOT that this couldn't be the wrong diagnosis and treatment anyway, but rxing these medications is not as easy as rxing many medications. You have to have tried certain other steps and medications and you have to have certain lab tests done and have certain results on those tests. At least the ins co's here demand this because a friend went through this a few mos ago. Do what you need to in order to feel okay that he is getting the right help so that you can concentrate on doing what is needed to beat your cancer! It would be very hard to stop worrying about him to focus on yourself after spending your life first raising your kids and then raising the grandkids. So accept that, and do what needs to be done and take care of yourself! [/QUOTE]
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