It is easy to say get off the NSAID's, but how do you do it? I have tried several times only to have an escalation in pain. I am on the DMARD sulfasalazine( 8 months) which has helped but there is still much room for improvement. The diet hasn't worked magic for me as it has for others. What is a person supposed to do??? At my rhuemy appt yesterday she said try ibiprofen and exercise every day and come back and see her in 2 months. She said the newer drugs havn't been out long enough to know the long term side effects to which I couldn't argue. I was ready for Enbrel but she said not yet. She didn't say never but she said not yet. So I am basically back to square one. I feel inbetween a rock and a hard place which I am sure most of us are.

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