Re: Voltaren and PG.........

[Guest guest]

maryellen,

not sure. don't remember the generic name for voltaren. you might

want to do a search, i am sure you will find the answer. i would do it

for you, but too headachey from my tooth getting pulled and too drugged

with vicodin right now (in vicodin land at the moment) :-\~, if you

know what i mean...

can't tell you what is " normal " because we don't know what is wrong and

everyone reacts differently anyway. why not call your doc and see if

he doesn't need to make a dosage adjustment????

cause for pyoderma gangrenosum. there is no known cause. we know it

can be associated with certain autoinflammatory diseases, but it can be

ideopathic as well. inflamed heat in the body, i doubt that is pg, but

sounds like it could be some form of autoinflammation. sorry i can't

be much more help there for you. if the pg dx was nailed down strong

enough and it is known that you don't have an infection,

immunomodulators are your best bet. but again, there are conditions

that have to be known otherwise you could be worse off. pg reaches a

point where topicals and superficial treatments just don't work. don't

care what anyone says. systemic treatment is sometimes the only

alternative, and what i mean by that is immunomodulators.

i wish for you to have less pain and looking forward to you feeling

better. now, go make that call!!!

jeff

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> Hello:

>

> Is voltaren the same as artho tech? Medicaid could not give me the

> arth tech but said the volteran is the same thing! I am so much more

> inflammed now, since taking this stuff for 4 days. Is that normal???

> My gosh they told me they may never find the cause for pyoderma. So

> what does that mean??? More sores?? More suffering?? I can't seem to

> get the circulation down into my feet so the pain is at number 10

> level! Is fibromyalgia autoimmune?? What is the red skin and the

> feeling of inflammed heat in your body?? is that pyoderma???? They

> better find something really fast because I can't take much more!!

>

> OMG it hurts!

>

> ellen

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[Guest guest]

Hi ellen,

Sorry you are still in so much pain.

Arthrotec® is the same as Voltaren. Just a different mfg.:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a689002.html

It says to report side effects to your doctor.

I have a friend, Stan who takes Voltaren for nerve pain in his feet.

He says it does help, but only to a point. He is still in pain and has

his better days and his worse days.

I hope you soon have beter days.

Love,