Swollen joints

[dry2010]

Hi,
Has anyone had single side joint issues? My right hand finger joints are swollen and painful but not my left hand seems odd it's just one side. Thank you in advance for any help or input.
Dry2010

[Joe S.]

My suggestion is that you see a health care professional.

[dry2010]

I have a doctors appt on July 3rd just wondering if anyone has had this issue. I thought this was a place we could help each other since SS is such a crazy disease. Nobody in my life gets it because they don't have it.
Thanks
Dry2010

[SunshineDaydream]

Yes, I've had that. Random joint pain here or there. Am pretty much able to manage it with Naturewise brand curcumin twice a day.

[irish]

One of the symptoms of Sjogrens is joint pain and swelling. I have had swelling of joints with pain off and on for decades....long before I was diagnosed and it still continues. Usually wanes and ebbs. Irish

[trejonina]

I've hadthat,please read my posts,specially the last one. LUCK

[cccourt1942]

Hi, if in menopause..i'll place you in early-mid 50s.  This can make a sane person crazy on its own.  I see you are on Wellbutrin.  Do you have a neurologist or psychiatrist treating you as well?  As to joints, I don't understand your additional dx.  Should say, not familiar with it. Sounds "joint" problem.  But recently I have been given methotrexate for joints....pains...etc.  I can't take any NSAID (ulcers).  I'm much older than you, but my body's joints are basically hampered by SjS.  I say this as the metho (@4mll per week by injection) has worked: miraculously.  She treats me w' this drug due to OA (NOT RA) and for psoriatic arthritis.  I have psoriasis..but not the "bad" plaque type.  I have guttate.  And..while on LDP at 3mg per day, it's practically disappeared.   Well ...the prednisone + full retirement!     Just throwing this out.  One of my joint areas which I've had flare ups for decades is my sternum.  Was finally (accurately) dxed w' costochondritis less than 5 years ago.  Now that I know I have it, I can touch those joints (well..my ribs too at times) and feel the discomfort.  Doesn't hurt daily...need to have irritated by certain tasks, movements, etc.  Bottom line, the sternum has decreased to the touch.  I will have hip replacement in 2 weeks, and in the midst of Pre Hab, my knees have killed me.  My metho was interrupted for 3 weeks (a stomach woe which "could have" been caused by it) but since I returned to it...3 weeks ago, the knee pain has become more exercise related not the injury feeling pain.  I'm thrilled.

My rheumy has mentioned this drug for me nearly two years (my ongoing, nagging hip pain treated by cortisone injections into the bursa of that hip) and i've refused.  Seemed a bit radical.  I accepted.  The reason i didn't want to get on it is it is recommended for RA.  As to the Psoriatic arthritis: there IS NO TEST to dx it.  They accept the coning of your thigh (required three stitches to close) to dx the psoriasis the necessary test to dx the PA.  I doubted it as it usually accompanies those with plaque type.  My mother and grandfather had that type.  It's horrid.  Well...all i can say is the rheumatologist knew best. 

It may be recommended for your other condition with which i am unfamiliar.  You might check. 

Good luck..I feel your pain...i know your pain...and to you i wish you a comfortable afternoon.
ccc

[trejonina]

Please google www.rheumatic.org.( Dr. Thomas MacPherson Brown cured almost 10,000 people with this Antibiotic Protocol. ) click on left side and read Medical Histories, also the firt article is Reversing RA ....etc, then move cursor down until you find the story by Dr Rima Kittley awar winning FAAFP dr.  Then click on left side on frequent questions and there's the whole AP. Get a General Practitioner to give you a prescription. It's all there.I'd like some feedback. No one from this forum has tried this AP.WRITE BACK.

[Polly]

I asked about this once and was told that the science just wasn't there. Dr Brown did not publish a peer-reviewed article about his study, others who tried to publish something also came up short. The website seems to confirm this.

I pulled this from one of the pages:
Treatment Outcomes. Twenty-seven of the 98 patients (28%) who began antibiotic therapy are considered to have failed treatment. (See Table 6.) Nineteen of those patients terminated antibiotic treatment because of complications (4), lack of treatment efficacy (13), or for unknown reasons (2). The remaining eight patients, though they were last known to be continuing antibiotic therapy, are considered to be treatment failures because of: increased use of steroids (4) or initiation of adjunctive treatment with SAARDs (penicillamine (2) and antimalarials (2)). The duration of therapy for the 27 treatment failures ranged from 9 days to 4 years; the median time to treatment failure for those patients is estimated to be 16 months.

That doesn't show success.

I searched for Dr Rima Kittley, she's a Family Practice doctor who was disciplined for failure to meet the standard of care for a patient in 2011. Award winning, no.

The website is not written by a medical professional. The treatments are varied from one person to the next. There's nothing there that you could take to a doctor. There is no protocol that has been tested and reviewed.

I'm sorry, I'd really like to find something that I could take to my doctor that would result in a cure for me! But RA is still incurable and I'm very unlikely to go into remission after all these years.

[trejonina]

Did you read Scientific Publication Support on left side. I f you read the Medical Histories you find a lot of succesful stories. I know 4 RA, 1 lupus , 1  mixed connective tissue success story. The 4 RA people are millionaires who had gone to rheumys in USA and only got worse, until they tried this. After  2 OR 3 monthS  of stopping AP, I'm going back on it, cause my joints are starting to hurt. You, do as you wish....

[trejonina]

Polly, please write me if your disease gets controlled or in remission....

[Polly]

But how do you get a doctor to give you whatever it is that you're taking? Millionaires can hire doctors and get what they want but I can't. My doctor is not going to read that website. I read the list of publications, but that's all it is, a list. No links, I have no way to get the articles. And they're all old. There is no peer-reviewed study with an adequate number of participants.

It's great that it works for you and you're very fortunate to have a doctor who will give you what you want. I don't have that. I'm not going to go into remission, I've been through all the treatments. I just get pain meds now.

[Skylar]

Hi,
Has anyone had single side joint issues? My right hand finger joints are swollen and painful but not my left hand seems odd it's just one side. Thank you in advance for any help or input.
Dry2010

I don't think it's odd - sometimes a joint that we're used a little more will swell up when other joints are okay. If you're right handed you probably use your right hand more often.

I've also noticed if I injure a joint - say I knock my left knee against my desk - it will swell and be more painful than other joints for awhile until it settles down.

[trejonina]

Polly dear, if you read the Medical Histories, General Practitioners gave the patients in USA their prescriptions, the patients go to the GP with the printed article. The millionaires,I and also poor people here, we live in a 3 world country where
we can buy antibiotics without prescriptions. The relative sucess stories I'm telling you is WE all are taking this AP without any Dr. prescriptions !!!!!  7 yrs ago I read this site and went blindly and took the treatment on my own.I herxed so I opened up the 100 mg capsule and divided it in 4 doses 0.25 mg each and slowly built up to 100 mg Minocyclene daily, then every other day, because  I weigh 120 pounds and 5'4 height,so I figured I didn't need high dose.A ctually starting dose is 100 mg twice daily. The after 2 yrs switched to doxyciclene cause it's cheaper than Mino. 
In www.rheumatic.og website click on left and yo'll find Support Group. Join the Yahoogroups, as people are always asking which drs in USA prescribe this according the the state and city they live in. Everyone there really helps newbies and oldies in the yahoogroup. Or have you tried buying Mino and/OR Doxy thru the internet??
Try it,luck

[SjoGirl]

Whether pain and swelling are on one side or both can matter. For example, RA is typically on both sides at the same time while other diseases might not been.

If you are seeing a Doc be sure to ask she or he to run test such as SSA, SSB, CBC (complete blood count), SED Rate (tests level of inflammation), RF (rheumatoid factor to look for RA), ANA (antinuclear antibody, which is a test for Lupus, Sjogrens, and other diseases).

Have you had any form of rashes? If so where and what do they look like. Sometimes things such as Lyme Disease can present like an autoimmune disease? Sometimes a rash is from an autoimmune disease.

I suggest taking a photo of your hand when it is swollen and take it with you, just in case swelling subsides. I have done this with swelling and rashes, it has helped docs to understand what might be happening.

Good luck and please keep us posted.