MS and RA?

[amyrising]

I went to see a pain management specialist on Friday because I just can't seem to get a handle on my pain. She went over my current medicine and then we talked about my last 3 labs. She said in all 3 labs my inflammation markers are elevated. She said that with the amount of pain and the location of my pain, it leads her to believe I have RA. She put me on Meloxicam to see if that makes any difference this coming month. Do any of you have both of these lovely diseases?

[mercadies25]

those and several others. unfortunately autoimmune diseases many times go hand in hand.

Good Luck

[rdmc]

Hi,

I seemed to remember some older threads about RA and MS...so I went looking for them. You can use the search button in the blue bar at the top of this page and do an advanced search and you'll come up with more threads, this was just one of the more lengthy ones.

http://www.msworld.org/forum/showthr...toid+arthritis

[bree2013]

I went to see a pain management specialist on Friday because I just can't seem to get a handle on my pain. She went over my current medicine and then we talked about my last 3 labs. She said in all 3 labs my inflammation markers are elevated. She said that with the amount of pain and the location of my pain, it leads her to believe I have RA. She put me on Meloxicam to see if that makes any difference this coming month. Do any of you have both of these lovely diseases?

Hi Amy - a friend of mine has both MS and RA. She's been on methotrexate (sp?) for a while now for her MS and she just found out she has RA also. They did tell her the methotrexate has probably been helping her with the RA all along.

Good luck and hope the Meloxicam helps give you relief.

Bree