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Hi,

I am new to this group. My daughter Rose (10) has been diagnosed with JRA.

Previously to this problem, she was diagnosed with another autoimmune disease,

autoimmune hepatitis (not the contageuous hepatitis, it's just that her own

cells are attacking the liver.)

She has been on Naxproxen and right now she is doing well. However, when we

tried to take her off of it, she started limping again. The problem is finding

another med to put her on, because of her liver. Because of the potential

toxicity of Methatrexate to her liver(I don't know the spelling) she cant go on

this med which seems to be the med of choice. Before she was diagnosed she had

and is still taking Imuran for her liver and it should have help the JRA, but

obviously it didn't since she now has this new problem. Does anyone else here

have this dual diagnosis JRA and Autoimmune Hepatitis? What are you taking?

Other meds such as Cellcept have been mentioned and one other med, which name I

can't recall. Anyone have good results with any other meds.

She also livido recticular, a rash that I read doesn't go away and is related to

JRA. Interestingly, much of her rash appears to be gone except what is on her

feet. Anyone else have this rash?

I have loads of questions, but I guess, that's it for now. Thanks for

listening.

Jo