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Originally Posted by DAVES
Rheumatologist? Perhaps you should be looking for pain management? In an effort to control opioids, the most effective pain killers, I think they can only write prescriptions for a month supply. You do not say if your mother lives with you and is mobile enough to go to a doctor on a regular basis. Or, if people will be stealing her drugs.
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Pain management is important to having a reasonable life with RA, but it's important to remember that pain meds do nothing to address the actual disease, they just cover it up. I self-medicated for years (luckily for me, Ibuprofen did it for me, not opioids) but all the while the actual RA was getting worse and worse). I finally found a doctor that explained all this and got me going with Methotrexate, which actually stopped the damage the RA was doing. Meanwhile, I replaced ibuprofen with CBD oil, and I'm managing things pretty well (28 year after 1st diagnosis). Still have a bad day maybe 1 day a month, but nothing like crawling up/down stairs which is where I was in the beginning. There is hope!