Rheumatoid Arthritis (NEED HELP)

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Re: Rheumatoid Arthritis (NEED HELP)

@Mr2sweet

Hello All,
I really need help here, me and my wife had our first child last December Alhamdulillah the birth was normal and my son is doing great, but my wife started to have these symptoms last 6 to 7 weeks ago, complaining her wrist, hands, fingers, knees, ankles hurt, we thought it was just temporary but the pain kept lingering so we went to an orthopedic he ran test everything came negative he stated that you should go to a Rheumatologist luckily we found one and she did blood test for my wife and come to find out she has a disease called Rheumatoid Arthritis, she have given my wife a temporary pills to reduce the pain which are steroids called Prednisone but she says this is not a long term thing, the long term medication she is suggesting is called Methotrexate but a very low dosage once a week this med is used for chemo also, so my question to anyone who can help us make this decision for this medication and a person who had this problem of Rheumatoid Arthritis how they dealt with it and any information you can provide i would really really appreciate it, thanks in advance to whoever assist us JA.

Your questions are very vague.

What exactly are your concerns?

RA as it is said is autoimmune disease. Small joints are affected.

**Diagnosis really needs to be confirmed. **

Many autoimmune diseases overlap.

**And even false blood tests may develop temporarily. **

Not trying to make you suspicious, but saying that because it means long term medications so be sure.

Just make sure the diagnosis is correct.