: reply to your ReA question on symptoms before (and anyone else)

May 31, 2006

, all of my knee, wrist and toe pains came on in the same fassion.

First...they would severely inflame (very noticable in the knees and wrists).

Then, a few weeks later to a month...the pain started. The knees started

catching and clicking with the pain. I have had tendonitis in my shoulder

before but I would describe this as a different pain from what I remember. I

didn't have any " burning " sensation at all...just a VERY inflamed ache when the

joint was in use (walking etc). The toe felt like I had broken it or severely

fractured it. My back (in one spot only) felt like I had thrown a disk out of

alignment to the point that I went into a chiropractor for the first time. He

did an adjustment and massage therapy which got me out of the office feeling

AWESOME. The next day however...OUCH! Same thing with my neck. I have a

vertabre out of alignment in my neck (from 1995) that the muscles had

compensated for by 1996...then when the chiro did his cracking...he

woke up this old injury. I don't know if the inflammation in the neck was ReA

filled or just out of whack like 1995? Nonetheless...it appears to be gone now.

I called my doc's office tonight and told the nurse that I was stopping the

Enbrel since I thought I might be in a remission. She told me that it might

just be due to the build up of Enbrel in the system. I on the other hand do not

think that is the case. I'll see the rheumy in mid july...but for now...I'm

done with Enbrel and Aleve. If I start to ache...I'll join in on the fasting to

test things out naturally for a bit. I love Enbrel...but would rather get off

of it for awhile to see what is up with my immune system. My wrists are still

tweeked but I think that is the carpal tunnel only. Since none of my other

joints are inflamed...I think that is a different independent problem (probably

caused from the previous wrist flare though). We'll see what happens there!

Rob

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