What is safe for arthritis after RNY.
It's funny because I have been trying to solve all of my medical problems I have become really good at talking to doctors. I take meds for depression and mostly all of the meds are time released. I point blank told the doc that because of RNY my body can't break down the drug and it will go right through me. He looked at me and realized that I was not going to take any other answer but I will write you a non time release. I tell you this because with some docs. they think that they are gods. With managed health care in this country, the common man almost needs a medical degree. Acetaminophen and oxycodone aka Percocet 10 mg/325 mg 3 or 4 times per day. It can be addictive but I managed it for 6 years and I take nothing at all now. I still have aches and pains but it is a walk in the park compared to what I felt with two bone on bone knees. You will know if you can handle the perks. Start out with taking 5 mg and then increase to 10mg. Word of advice if you are given it and they tell you take 2 5's tell them you want the 10's reason is that it is 325 mg. of acetaminophen instead of 650 mg. Most docs don't even think about that one. Please feel free to PM me if you have any questions. I will be checking into this sight at least every few day. I wish you much luck but more important no pain.
I have psoriatic arthritis in my spine (it is similar to rheumatoid). I've had it since my late teens. But no one would take my pain seriously because they all said "You just need to lose weight." Eventually I ended up in a wheelchair - in my mid-20s. At that point, I was like "I'm not living the rest of my life like this!" and decided to have RNY. On the day of surgery, I was 430 lbs. About 2 months after my surgery, my derm put me on Enbrel for my psoriasis (skin). After about a month or 2 of that, I was out of the wheelchair. But then I had a stomach perforation and had to have emergency surgery to repair it (complication from the RNY). So I couldn't take my Enbrel until I was healed since it lowers the immune system. The intense pain returned. That is when my derm and I got lightbulbs above our heads and realized that in addition to the psoriasis, I also had psoriatic arthritis! Pain got better after I went back on the Enbrel. I ended up losing 200 lbs, too. I am sure that the reduced weight helped some, but it was really the Enbrel that eliminated the pain.
Unfortunately, the Enbrel stopped being effective, so she switched me to Humira. It keeps my psoriasis completely gone, but the back pain has returned. So I saw all sorts of doctors trying to find a solution. I tried all sorts of injections in my back with no luck. The only thing that I have found that helps is narcotics. I do okay (not pain free, but better) when I take 10/325 hydrocodone 4x a day along with muscle relaxers (I was on Soma, but my new doc won't prescribe it, so I am now on Flexeril). The pain mgmt docs are always trying to push the extended release drugs on me, and I wish I could take them, but I can't. I have to fight the doctors every time. I'd also love to be able to take NSAIDs, but since I already had a stomach perf, I really don't want to go through that again. It was easily 100 times more painful and difficult than the RNY. I really miss NSAIDs when I have a terrible headache. Tylenol doesn't touch them.
I hope and hope that the medical world will develop a drug that acts like an NSAID but won't hurt us. Because it is going to become a huge issue as there are more and more people have WLS, and we'll live longer since we are healthier, but I am sure that we'll also be in pain as older folks typically are.
sooo interested in this ...i know for a fact about not able to take celebrex or time release stuff...true doctors dont understand a whole lot of us due to our surgery....am up a creek right now ...no insurance so i cant see my doc i cant get prescription so in constact pain....question to yall do yall get the little twitches and shooting pain...kinda like electric shock ?? just asking thanks :)
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I don't know how you all get prescriptions for Percocet . My doctor looks at me like i'm a big baby . My body is riddled with arthritis . I had a partial knee replacement on my right knee 2 years ago & that is greatly improved . Maybe I need to see a Rheumatologist . It's just the co-pays are so high .
The weird thing about Prednisone & the liver is that if you have liver disease that's what they give you . I have Auto-immune Hepatitis & my liver is very damaged . Right now i'm considered to be in remission (symptom free) . When I have a flare up , I will have to go on a one year course of prednisone & another medicine . So many advisories are contradictive . Makes me crazy .
