Juvenile Rhematoid Arthrits

[Toxick]

Anyone have any experience with it?

One of the toxlets might have it

[MMDad]

Originally Posted by Toxick

Anyone have any experience with it?

One of the toxlets might have it

I have a cousin who has it. It can be crippling, but it can also be dealt with very effectively.

My cousin made the Olympic luge team as an alternate, so it obviously didn't slow him down too much.

[bresamil]

Are they also testing for Lyme? The arthritic symptoms are with Lyme disease as well.
I hope toxlet has neither.

[Toxick]

thanks mmdad

I don't know what they're testing her for yet.

[Christy]

Originally Posted by Toxick

thanks mmdad

I don't know what they're testing her for yet.

Get her tested for Lyme! It is EXTREMELY rare for a child to have rhematoid arthritis, although that is what our peditrician at the time tried to get us to buy in to. Turns out she had lyme.

[sccrmommy]

My little brother has it. I remember MANY days and nights that he was in bed with pain, especially when it was about to rain, he would ache even worse. I suggest you take stock in Icy Hot, that helped him a lot, along with some heat pads.

Good luck, I hope the little one doesn't have it.

[my-thyme]

Originally Posted by bresamil

Are they also testing for Lyme? The arthritic symptoms are with Lyme disease as well.
I hope toxlet has neither.

Knew two families whose kids were eventually diagnosed with Lyme...one at 11, one at 17. Eleven year old in terrible joint pain. Seventeen yr old ended up with a catheter to place antibiotics directly in her heart. Both are 100% OK now. Hope everything works out for your family.

[godsbutterfly]

I hope everything works out well too, Toxic. Please let us know.

[doubtfull24]

I have Lyme disease. It took my doctors a long time to figure out that I had Lyme disease at first they thought it was many different things like chronic fatigue syndrome then maybe multiple sclerosis but an MRI ruled that out. In the beginning I felt like I had the worse flu of my life my body ached couldn't get out of bed then the aches and pains started. I had horrible head aches and felt like I was in a constant fog . I kept going back to the doctors begging them to find out what was wrong . I told my doctor I know theirs something really wrong I cannot live like this anymore. I thought I was crazy or dying . I couldn't take care of my son all I wanted to do was sleep or lay in bed. I started forgetting things. After taking multiple blood tests . It came back as I was positive for Lyme disease.

I took antibiotics for 30 days but that didn't help so I had to have a pic line " IV " put in my arm and was on daily rocephin antibiotic treatment for 4 months straight. That helped for awhile but not to long after stopping the antibiotics the pain came back in my joints and back and my ankles and wrists. I don't feel like I'm in a fog as much but I still get the headaches a few times a week. I have arthritis in all of my joints and when I move my arms you can hear my joints crack and pop my hips do the same thing.

[Ladybug76]

Originally Posted by bresamil

Are they also testing for Lyme? The arthritic symptoms are with Lyme disease as well.
I hope toxlet has neither.

Great advice to check. I have been reading up on Lyme since I was bitten by a tick about 3 weeks ago. All the original Lyme kids were diagnosed with RA before they had 'discovered' the disease.

I hope everything works out for the little one! It's scary when you don't know what's wrong.