I have fibromyalgia and am on pain pills and muscle relaxers and a few other meds for it as well. Doc sent me to a rhuemie now because of symptoms that look like RA. Rhuemie took tests, and more tests. He says it shows in one of the tests the ra factor is negative, but he is stumped because i have all the symptoms of RA as well as the swelling and severe pain, mostly shoulders, elbows and wrists. He wants to put me on plaquenil, so had to get a base reading of my eyesight before i actually take it because of the risk of losing your sight, we're waiting on the results of more tests before i start it.
I used to take fosomax a few years ago, but noticed that i started to get severe pain in the bones, i spoke to my doc about it and she said that yes, alot of patients were complaining about that. I also heard several women in the waiting area discussing it, and alot of them werent happy with the drug side effects, the most bothersome being severe bone pain. I stopped the fosomax for about a month and my pain subsided, of course i still had to deal with the fibro pain but it wasnt the same. I then started fosomax again, and within a few weeks the severe pain was back and thats when i discussed the problem with the doctor. I was appaled that a drug that is suppose to help build bone would cause such pain that we'd have to make a choice, put up with the severe pain or let the osteoporosis get worse. Seems alot of these drugs have side effects that are just as bad or worse than the illness itself. I gave up the fosomax, and will probably pass on the plaquenil if doc decides to put me on it.
I know the pharmacuetical companies push their drugs on the doctors, after all, its all about money for them.
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