Stressed and having a bad flare

Hello everyone,

I'm 41 and was diagnosed in my late 20's with RA. I've been on prednisone and its starting to affect my eyes. The Dr. I was seeing wants me to apply for Enbrel or Humria, but I just couldn't do it they both affect your eyes as well. The good news is I will have insurance again June 1st so I'm going to see a different Dr, I was frustrated with the one I was seeing. My son is 16 and was diagnosed with Crohn's at 13 which is also an auto-immune disease. He is having a really bad flare up right now as well. I think from all the stress the last few weeks of worrying about him has caused mine to flare up. My wrists and fingers are huge with knots on my wrists. I've never had knots and my elbows are huge and my knees hurt so bad I can hardly walk.

I've been on other drugs not just the prednisone, celebrex, methotrexate, but in the past few years just the prednisone, and now they are treating my son with it. I can't wait to see the new dr. to see what suggestions she has for a new med.