Here is my experience with Psoriatic Arthritis, treated with Methotrexate, Remicade, steroids and Celebrex plus WLS.  I wanted to have Gastric bypass.  But several surgeons would not perform that surgery on me because of all of the medications I continue to take and suggested VSG - Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy.  This will allow me to continue my medications as my diegstive system functions normally - no bypass of digestive system.  It is only smaller.

I had my Remicade treatment 2 weeks before my surgery and was taken off of the steroids and methotrexate for a time before and after the surgery.  But I am back on all of my required medications now and all is well.  Less weight is resulting in a lesser amount of medications I need to manage my Psoriatic Arthritis.

I have had good success with the VSG.  Please go forward do your research and talk to WLS surgeons about your options considering your RA and medicines you take and present the new information to your doctor.

 I recently had an episode of severe arthritis-like symptoms for about 6 weeks.....I am now getting better, thanks to some meds (prednisone) and painkillers....  one thing i have done is give up artificial sweenteners....'google' the topic of artificial sweeteners and arthritis.....just might be something to it.... good luck!

I have RA also and I was up to 9 tablets a week before surgery and took 3 folic acids a day.  Dr says that it helps counter act the Metho.  I am sorry that your Dr. says no surgery, My Dr. couldnt wait for me to have WLS. I hope that things get better for you.

Today we released a couple of major updates to Health Tracker just in time for the holidays (as we continue on the path to Health Tracker world domination :). These updates include, 1) Profile display of Health Tracker - If you choose to, you are now able to display/share your Health Tracker within your personal profile. This can be kept completely private, it can be shared with only your friends or with the entire ObesityHelp community. 2) My Workouts - You are now able to build and store custom workouts that can be used over and over again. My Workouts will allow you to log multiple exercise/activity items at one time so you don't have to search for individual exercises each time you want to log your activity or exercise session.

Profile Display of Health Tracker .

The profile display of Health Tracker includes Body, Food Log, Exercise Log and the Macronutrient Report. As mentioned above, this can be kept entirely private or you can choose to share your Health Tracker information with friends, family, your bariatric surgeon or other clinicians.

In order to see the profile view of Health Tracker, when viewing your profile or another member's profile, look for the Health Tracker link to the right of the avatar. If there is no Health Tracker link, the profile view of Health Tracker has been set to private.

 

The privacy settings for Health Tracker can be found in the "Settings" section of My OH. To access your Health Tracker setting click My OH at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select "Settings" on the left, click the Health Tracker tab and choose the "Sharing" option. Or, just click here to access your Health Tracker Sharing options :)

Workouts

My Workouts makes it quick and easy to log routine exercise and activity. For those who perform similar exercises on a regular basis, with My Workouts you can create a workout consisting of a series of exercises you often perform and instead logging each exercise indivivudally, My Workouts allows to log a single item (a workout) that contains all of the exericses you have performed. Build it once and log it any number of times.

Under My Workouts you will see a list of workouts that you have created and saved. You can log workouts directly from My Workouts by selecting "I did this", choose the day and click "Save"

You can also search for workouts you have created directly from your Exercise Log.

Create your first workout now!

One other addition

For your convenience, in this release we have also made some changes to the account deactivation process. In case you ever have the need to deactivate your ObesityHelp account, you can access this function by clicking My OH at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select "Settings" on the left, and under the "General" tab select "Manage". Instructions for deactivating your account can be found there.

Have a great Thanksgiving and look for more updates soon!

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this release, please post them in this thread on the Main Message Board.

i just read this same thing in First this month so I just went to vitamin shoppe and bought turmeric my concern is interaction with taking low dose aspirin.  i am going to start it tomorrow.