Guest guest Posted April 6, 2004 Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 My Rheumy acts like he never heard of rashes with lupus. He won't give me pain meds. He wants my internist to take care of that stuff. He prescribes celebrex and plaquinile and that's all. He says nothing about my hurting legs and feet. They tingle, feel numb, have pins and needles and sting. The muscles always hurt and my foot bones kill me. He just looks and says: "I don't know". I am getting meds for that from my internist. Cheryl in CA -- What the Hell is a Rheumy For !! Hello my friends, I'm going to give a little vent..iinstead of waiting till it has gotten miserable and having to go in and get a shot, and increase my prednisone to 60mg. and then taper off again.......I told the nurse what I wanted to do .......she said she would talk to the Doctor , and call me back. Now I had an appt. with my psychiatrist this morning, and I told the nurse ......if I'm not home just leave a message on my answering machine. I went ahead to my appt. .......when i got home,there was no message, so I stayed off the phone, and computer all day waiting for her call..........fell asleep on the sofa. Woke up at 4:30 .....called the Rheumy's office......got a recorded message that they close at 4:00. I just decided to go ahead and increase my dose.....the only problem is that if I do that I will need more Prednisone to get through the month......she just writes the script for a 30 days supply.I can usually maintain on 10mg. a day, but after a month of being on 10mg. after my last flare.......I am flaring again. I just don't like this new Rheumy.......she doesn't want to be bothered except for my reg. checkup with her every 3 or 4 months........If I have a problem between times......I wind up having to go to my Primary Doc.for treatment! told to call my Rheumy if I had any more problems.....well a week later the rash was back with a vengeance......I called my Rheumy....and she told me that since I had already been treated for the rash by my primary......to go back to him....I did, Now am I wrong........but isn't my Rheumy supposed to take care of my problems related to my Lupus......and my primary just supposed to take care of things like.....colds, or other none Lupus related illnesses..... C. "The LUPIES Store" Come check out our store...http://www.cafepress.com/thelupies"The LUPIES Web Page"http://www.itzarion.com/lupusgroup.html"The LUPIES online photo albums!" Check out what your fellow Lupies look like...http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?username=lupies ____________________________________________________ IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2004 Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 Take my hand , Girl........you and I are going to find a new Rheumy tomorrow !! C. Cheryl wrote: My Rheumy acts like he never heard of rashes with lupus. He won't give me pain meds. He wants my internist to take care of that stuff. He prescribes celebrex and plaquinile and that's all. He says nothing about my hurting legs and feet. They tingle, feel numb, have pins and needles and sting. The muscles always hurt and my foot bones kill me. He just looks and says: "I don't know". I am getting meds for that from my internist. Cheryl in CA -- What the Hell is a Rheumy For !! Hello my friends, I'm going to give a little vent..iinstead of waiting till it has gotten miserable and having to go in and get a shot, and increase my prednisone to 60mg. and then taper off again.......I told the nurse what I wanted to do .......she said she would talk to the Doctor , and call me back. Now I had an appt. with my psychiatrist this morning, and I told the nurse ......if I'm not home just leave a message on my answering machine. I went ahead to my appt. .......when i got home,there was no message, so I stayed off the phone, and computer all day waiting for her call..........fell asleep on the sofa. Woke up at 4:30 .....called the Rheumy's office......got a recorded message that they close at 4:00. I just decided to go ahead and increase my dose.....the only problem is that if I do that I will need more Prednisone to get through the month......she just writes the script for a 30 days supply.I can usually maintain on 10mg. a day, but after a month of being on 10mg. after my last flare.......I am flaring again. I just don't like this new Rheumy.......she doesn't want to be bothered except for my reg. checkup with her every 3 or 4 months........If I have a problem between times......I wind up having to go to my Primary Doc.for treatment! told to call my Rheumy if I had any more problems.....well a week later the rash was back with a vengeance......I called my Rheumy....and she told me that since I had already been treated for the rash by my primary......to go back to him....I did, Now am I wrong........but isn't my Rheumy supposed to take care of my problems related to my Lupus......and my primary just supposed to take care of things like.....colds, or other none Lupus related illnesses..... C. "The LUPIES Store" Come check out our store...http://www.cafepress.com/thelupies"The LUPIES Web Page"http://www.itzarion.com/lupusgroup.html"The LUPIES online photo albums!" Check out what your fellow Lupies look like...http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?username=lupies ____________________________________________________ IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here "The LUPIES Store" Come check out our store...http://www.cafepress.com/thelupies"The LUPIES Web Page"http://www.itzarion.com/lupusgroup.html"The LUPIES online photo albums!" Check out what your fellow Lupies look like...http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?username=lupies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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