Georgina-Pain during night...help?

October 17, 2002

Hi Georgina...thanks for your email....

Will is doing okay, but his L ankle is still giving him trouble....he limps a

lot and its still swollen and restricted. We saw our rheumy and she thinks

hes gotten all the benefit out of naprosyn as he is gonna get...so she is

suggesting MTX...borage oil, or prednisone.....we are thinking of trying the

borage oil....and MTX....I hate the sounds of prednisone.....We didn't think

it would get this far...we had been so optimistic. He did have jt injections

last Aug (2001) (great memory!) and it worked so well......almost a year.

Now the aristospan is not available, (til 2004 we were told) and she doesn't

want to use the other preparations...he also had a little atrophy at the

ankle site and she doesn't want that to get worse. Because of the two

reasons she is opting not to do the injections....So we are torn what to do

now....I have a phone appt with our Rheumy today at 11am to discuss it.....

thanks again for your concern...take care.... ( Will's Mom. pauci, 2 1/2)

In a message dated 10/10/02 7:17:21 PM, gmckin@... writes:

<< Hi ,

I was so saddened to read that your little is having a flare up of

symptoms. It must be very difficult for you. I remember those long nights and

tearful mornings when was younger. In another message you mentioned

that the doctor had talked about using steroids. had joint injections

done a while back, right? If I'm remembering correctly, he had a really good

response to them and was doing quite well afterwards. Did the doctor mean

that they wanted to do more injections or was he implying that maybe

should take oral prednisone for a short time, to bide him over this period of

more active inflammation? Maybe that would be a good idea? It usually works

really quickly.

I wish there was more I could offer, in the way of support, but know that you

and your family are in our thoughts and I do hope that feels better

soon.

Take Care,

Georgina

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