Hi Sue,
You got my point at one shot.
Yes. I agree in doing whatever possible to be able to function. Should one select a pain management technique that reduces the pain and also reduces the inflammation in the process of overuse and make it more inflamed.
Alternatively, select a pain management technique and also use other process (other than regular medication be it biological or medicine) to check the inflmmation under control.
Jay
I think we all end up with whichever approach seems most effective for us.
For me, ice, ultrasound, cortisone injections and then Aleve, steroids, and now Humira all helped me the very most (all things that lowered inflammation) helped me the most.
Partly, my doctors never went the pain med route, so I never ended up down that path. That's just the way my path went.
I started Humira in June. Was doing well til I flared in August (like I always do). My rheumy told me to do a course of methylprednisone, so I did. Normally I do it for 6 days, but this time I did it for 10 days. Then I struggled a little without it, but now back to feeling good on Humira.
Could you try a short pred taper to supplement your biologic like my rheumy had me do?
I thought I'd be able to stop the pred once on Humira. That might happen over time. But for now, instead of pred every 10-12 weeks, it was 17 weeks in between the pred once on Humira. Maybe I'll only need it for my bad august flares? Time will tell.
But the pain procedures and meds that others use may be what they need.
Again, we do what we need to do.
I guess if you use a pain procedure or med, just make sure you don't over do it anymore than you have to.
Like Rumble said, the nerve ablation allows her to do her job.
For Pea, having the pain pump allows her to essentially not be in bed.
Sometimes just living and/or working is "overdoing it", but we gotta live, gotta work.....
