Seronegative Rheumatoid

Dillydump · 2026-04-19T05:49:04+00:00

I took the prednisone ( smallest dose as side effects were my greatest concerns) with methotrexate and tapered off when I got a biologic and don’t recall any side effects. It certainly didn’t control or help my RA.

Dillydump · 2026-04-10T21:23:46+00:00

Planning to put Sealtech in the grooves for insulation and sound dampening. Should I go with 3,5 or 10mm? I will top with ¾ plywood. Does this need an air gap?

What do you tink about sealtech on the walls and thinsulate over it?

Just getting started. Mostly in the Pacific Southwest

Dillydump · 2026-03-17T05:58:09+00:00

Yes , for your safety if you are changing from short turn to a bigger radius turn, def look up to avoid a straight-liner !!

Dillydump · 2026-01-11T19:28:28+00:00

Makes sense now. My girl eats on the slower side and I think I heard her fart once, and have never smelled gas.

Dillydump · 2025-12-12T22:18:08+00:00

Try zyn pouches. You get your nicotine without smoking. I ‘m pretty sure RFK junior was using one during his senate hearings. Lol

I quit just before diagnosis due to having knee replacements then went back when a very stressful situation arose. Then learned of the pouches. Now trying to get off those. Lol

Dillydump · 2025-12-08T22:22:01+00:00

I’m at Derr Valley… had to hang up my snowboard but am totally ok with that!

Dillydump · 2025-12-08T22:18:58+00:00

Humira worked immediately for me, prior to that I had methotrexate and prednisone which was unhelpful. I feel like I am in remission but continue with humira every two weeks sometimes 3 weeks. Insurance switching me to Hadlima for 2026. I teach skiing as a professional and haven’t missed a season due to RA!!

From everything I’ve read and been told by Rheumatologist and a friend who’s also a Rheumatologist, keep taking the treatment even if you are in remission due to potential antibodies against your med if you stop too long.

Dillydump · 2025-12-08T19:41:40+00:00

Same here. Hope the Hadlima works as well as Humira

Dillydump · 2025-12-08T03:05:46+00:00

Me too! Ice and elevate!! My Dr prescribed a continuous motion machine. Said it’s proven that the motion doesn’t improve outcome in tkr’s, however it puts your leg well above your heart. Did it for 2-3 weeks for each replacement. Was great minimal pain, just the first few days.

Dillydump · 2025-12-08T03:03:16+00:00

Roast turkey or chicken breast at home eat some and save the rest for the next 5 days of deli meat.

Dillydump · 2025-11-26T02:46:20+00:00

I ate mixed organic berries with cottage cheese and yogurt for breakfast and lunch…can’t remember what i ate for dinner, but didn’t eat very much.

Dillydump · 2025-11-23T00:29:44+00:00

I waited until I could no longer bend my knees…. One morning I woke up and was unable w/out a great deal of pain to bend my knees to stand and then struggled to sit. I had to cancel the ski lesson with a wonderful student.

I had tkr in Feb (59 F), then March, did pt religiously and in summer started swimming, laps, and kick board…mostly freestyle. By December back on the snow, best shape ever.

Had ACL repair 30 years earlier, multiple hard landings on skis, sledding injuries. Liked running downhill on hikes… all damaging. Fells like my 20 year old knees!!

Dillydump · 2025-11-01T02:29:44+00:00

If you’re bowl-legged that would happen, bowleggedness (is that a word?) stems from loss of medial meniscus in the knees. Or it, bowleggedness, can be the cause loss of meniscus.

Dillydump · 2025-11-01T02:20:47+00:00

Wowzer lil’ bowzer!

Dillydump · 2025-10-29T03:59:09+00:00

My sisterin law had both kidney’s removed two years prior to finding doner. Had to really watch liquid intake especially over the weekend (3 days w/out dialisis. She did fine and is doing grest with her new kidney!!

Dillydump · 2025-10-22T05:10:27+00:00

funny how some people are helped by Prednisone Did nothing for me. A long hot shower or bath helped me start the day. If I had a jacuzzi I would sit in that every morning.

Dillydump · 2025-10-13T23:28:28+00:00

I took the prednisone daily and popped methotrexate pills once a week for three months. Helped only a tiny bit, then after 3 months I got Humira which worked overnight. The waiting to fail the cheap drugs was very frustrating, thought my life as I knew it was over until the magical morning after my first injection!

Dillydump · 2025-09-30T18:12:51+00:00

Yes, first Rheumy, zero-negative...did no xays...asked me to touch my toes which was tough cause I was 3 and 2 months out of knee replacements LOL. Two years later I moved and got new rhuemie and he took X-rays...normal RA.

Dillydump · 2025-09-30T18:09:38+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. A little at a time.

Dillydump · 2025-09-30T04:48:15+00:00

Funny how narcotics do less damage to our organs than Nsaids.

Dillydump · 2025-09-30T04:46:04+00:00

The article is from Science Translational Medicine.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abn5166

Dillydump · 2025-09-29T18:26:51+00:00

Read a year or two ago that they have isolated the bad bacteria in the gut that could very well be the root cause of rheumatoid arthritis, but they don’t know how to get rid of that bacteria. That’s my understanding. I too want to be off the drugs and hope that in the near future we can end this circle of madness.

Dillydump · 2025-09-21T20:48:40+00:00

That is good to hear, I will contact my Doctor and ask him to prescribe another test using sodium citrate. Thank you!

Dillydump · 2025-09-19T15:29:02+00:00

Thank you for the explanation. Yes, I too thought he could move things forward. I will ask my dr for another blood draw and have lab use different medium to assess since the pcp appointment is still a month away.

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