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(Fri-24-10-2014, 20:03 PM)Caroline Wrote: Yes, indeed Jim.
But the reumatologists who can make the diagnose, still very often don't know what to do afterwards.
But also it is interesting to warn the patients that run into the problem. They don't know what they are dealing with and it can take a long time to realize what is going on with you.
E.g. It took me too long, so now I cannot do my favorite running anymore and had to change to bicycling and spinning.
That is very true Caroline many rheumatologists haven't caught up yet with the modern medicines and those that have have one hand tied behind their backs and they have to ration the drugs by giving drugs like methotrexate and sulfasalazine for patients to fail on although some do get relief in these drugs it's not known if they inhibit joint damage
Whereas they know bio drugs and DMF drugs do work but they are too expensive
I was watching a great lecture by a rheumatologist earlier and he himself admitted that he gave patients inferior drugs like methotrexate although he knows the best treatment is too expensive to prescribe...... It's a shame but I fear it's a common tale in all branches of medicine the drugs are there but governments and insurers just can't afford them for every body
