Thursday, February 19, 2009 lee13 asks

Q: Knee Pain is it RA?

HI,

I happy to say that its been over a year and I FINALLY have had 1 week of livable pain. Been on several different drugs and had several DX'S the last one being Fibromyalgia. I'm on Lyrica . Started with 150mg a day along with Plaquenil and not much help. Raised to 300mg per day and it has helped with almost all my pain and brought it down to a level of 4-5 except my knees. I was told to stop Plaquenil to see which drug is working but my knee pain has gotten worse. It has never gone away but improved slightly with Plaquenil Xrays just done less than six months ago showed no degeneration so.......... I'm thinking that I have both RA and Fibromyalgia. My RA Dr is not certain that I have RA although 2 tests are low positive. Wanted him to tests blood again but he said once you have the RA positive reading its always there? Not sure what that means? Any thoughts from anyone? Thanks

Lee

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Answers (2)

Casiesea

2/20/09 11:43am

I don't believe your doctor is correct. Plaquenil can normalize your labs (make them normal). Not only that, but your RF will go up and down depending on flares. Your knee pain absolutely could be related to RA. Do you see a Rheumy or a family pract?

Casiesea

2/20/09 11:50am

A few more things... Xrays cannot see RA damage until it is significant. U need an MRI of your knee to determine if RA is affecting it.

How long have you been off the plaquenil? I think it is far too suspicious that the knee pain started when u stopped the med...but since u are already off...u need to demand they test your RF, ESR, CRP BEFORE u start back on Plaquenil.

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