Originally Posted By: Smiletoday
I would move on. Trust your gut. Before my symptoms were better controlled the rheumy was seeing me every 30 days with emails in between. Now it's 3 months for maintenance because I've been improving. It sucks when the dr doesn't seem to care. The sad part is she/he probably doesn't. That's just how it is. Lots of people lose compassion when they see the same thing day in and day out. That just highlights the fact that it's up to you to get the care you need because if you don't seek good care then people will probably give you subpar care, sadly. There are other treatments for you at least. Maybe you can take pred until your symptoms are under control or pain meds just short term? Or a different NSAID? Sulfasalazine helps me greatly.

Good luck.....


This is exactly what my gut is telling me. I didn't mention that I called with a question 6 weeks ago. I was concerned with my feet slowly getting worse. There is no choice but to leave a message. No one ever called me back. I asked her about this. I was told that they had a lot of problems with nurses that I was. Or the only one that had called and not received return calls. It takes so long to get in to see these docs.