Re: Tim Re:Antipsychotic Drugs...JRA INFORMATION

[Guest guest]

How do you know a child has JRA? Are there symtoms to look for? Tests to take?

I am sure the answer is yes to both, but I never knew about this.

Thanks,

Murray

mom to twin Chargers and and wife to Jay

Re: Tim Re:Antipsychotic Drugs

Tim,

What the heck is JRA?

[Guest guest]

to me the symtoms and i dotn haveit but id think itd b the same as normal

one wouldntit pains in joints that kind of stuff

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> How do you know a child has JRA? Are there symtoms to look for? Tests to

> take?

> I am sure the answer is yes to both, but I never knew about this.

> Thanks,

> Murray

> mom to twin Chargers and and wife to Jay

>

>

> Re: Tim Re:Antipsychotic Drugs

>

> Tim,

> What the heck is JRA?

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

In 's case, she came home from school one Friday and could hardly

walk. Then when she was signing to me, she couldn't use one hand for

fingerspelling. She said they hurt. When I looked at her hands, they

appeared swollen and red. She also said her knees and left foot hurt. I

took her to the ER (we'd recently had scares in Indiana because 2 college

students died from meningitis) and they checked her out, even did hip, knee

and hand xrays. Nothing was found, but we were told to give her alternate

doses of ibuprofen and Tylenol and to follow up with our family doctor.

When we did that, said her hands were fine that day; but her

shoulder and elbow were hurting. Our doctor referred us to rheumatology and

it went from there. They did bloodwork for autoimmune problems and

determined the JRA. (I think it was the level of ANA's, if I am remembering

correctly.) So I guess it is just a matter of bloodwork to assist with the

clinical diagnosis based on joint inflammation and stiffness. In 's

case, it is exacerbated by the fact of her being hyperreflexive.

Friends in CHARGE,

Marilyn Ogan

Mom of (14 yrs, CHARGE+ JRA)

Mom of Ken (17 yrs, Asperger's)

Wife of Rick

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Subject: Re: Tim Re:Antipsychotic Drugs...JRA INFORMATION

How do you know a child has JRA? Are there symtoms to look for? Tests to

take?

I am sure the answer is yes to both, but I never knew about this.

Thanks,

Murray

mom to twin Chargers and and wife to Jay

Re: Tim Re:Antipsychotic Drugs

Tim,

What the heck is JRA?