I honestly think when you are forced to deal with different doctors and different specialties that sometimes the right hand isn't aware of what the left hand is doing. And sticking needles into my back to try and figure out why my feet are numb and why I'm having referred nerve pain down my right leg might have just unleashed the beast again, a perceived assault to the back, wonderful, right where the inflammation loves to hang out and get out of control. The same thing with being prescribed Neurontin by the foot doctor, one side effect is -- gasp! -- back pain, just what I need right now. So I haven't even started it, the pain down my leg is tolerable, the pain in my back wants me to chew up something. This morning I was up at five, finally was able to stand up about ten minutes ago without shrieking, in the meantime I took Arava and Celebrex at six, even though I know Celebrex makes my BP go way up and eats my innards I am desperate!!!! And have been wrapped in assorted heating pads since six AM. I know I should call the rheumy but it's Friday, not a good day to cry for help or beg pain meds, so I'll give it until Monday and then see if I can get in. I don't know how this new rheumy feels about pain meds, and don't want her to think of me as a drug seeking person, so will soldier onward until Monday and then it will be almost a week. Sad but true, when you're female and dealing with a new doctor sometimes you have to "prove" you are suffering in order to get relief - - maybe that's true for men too, but I know from experience it's true for women. So bad mood, bad mood, bad mood

Cheryl

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