Hi guys my wife's rheumy just told her after 2yrs that she probably doesn't have ra but something else. Her joints are fine with no deformity or weakness. However she has pain in her back which has lasted for a week now. She has been prescribed amitriptyline 10mg.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Hi, that's left everything in the air for your wife and for you also, is the doctor qualified lol, she could ask for a second opinion I suppose and take it from there maybe, is the pain muscular because that sometimes you can get deferred pains and there are many different things that it may or may not be.
I hope everything gets sorted out soon for your wife's sake.
Best of luck to you both.
Philip
Rheumatology is very complex - there are over 200 types of arthritis and a whole host more autoimmune diseases that can also include arthritis. No tips for the back pain sorry but it probably wouldn't be caused by RA as this normally affects the small to medium joints. I'm trying to get rediagnosed after five years. Did your wife's RA medication help? I hope her back pain resolves soon. Keeping gently mobile usually helps me most
Other way round for me. 2 years ago diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica (pmr). Now told I have RA instead. Symptoms are very very similar and apparently 40% of people have their diagnosis changed
Hi there, I would strongly suggest your wife gets a MRI, if pain is unbearable. I strongly suggest this to everyone. I was an idiot. Thought I had one thing, (muscular) and it was completely 'worse'. Showed up spinal injuries..bulging and herniated discs. I went to physio, thinking it would fix it, and when I showed my xrays to physio, asked him whether I should have even attempted physio, he said.....noooooo. Rule of thumb for you.....If the pain takes her breath away, and she feels like throwing up, and she cant lift her knees off the bed, for pain in her back, well, that is worth a bigger look. All the best.
Hi. I was really ill in 2010 and was put amitriptlyine 50 it is used for nerves pain.
Could I have RA?
My RA must be faulty- shocking comments
Was it a mini-stroke or what? 
When do I know what is causing what... is it the RA, or is it the Fibromyalgia, or is it both??
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