What can my girlfriend do to control her pain from Rheumatoid Arthritis?
My girlfriend does not have insurance, she can not afford insurance. The only medication she has been prescribed is 800mg ibuprofens which she takes twice a day. It cant be good for her liver. She is in so much pain all the time, I want to pay for her to visit the doctor to get some real pain killers. Which pain killers are most effective for this problem? She can’t afford the 2000 dollar a month shots for the arthritis that her doctor wants her to take as well, so that is not an option. What should she do or say when she visits the doctor in order to get some relief besides from ibuprofen. She also has a thyroid problem as well as some sort of muscle problem which started acting up increasing the pain even more.
The doctor recommends a medication that costs 2000 dollars a month without insurance, something like 500 with insurance. Maybe if I robbed a bank or start dealing some serious drugs I could help her… Seriously, shes training to be a nurse as well, hopefully she will get insurance, but right now I’m hoping that she can get hydrocodone as its only like 20 dollars without insurance, I know about the side effects but surely it must be better then taking ibuprofen. Basically my question is what can she do to get her doctor to prescribe something she can actually afford? Beg?
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Rheumatoid arthritis is called the crippler of young adults for a reason. She has a severe auto immune disease. Why do you think that Yahoo answers people have some magic cure? She is going to need pain relief, and a lot of it soon. Then comes joint replacement. Good luck.
Look, you’re not going to like this answer, but to just treat RA with painkillers is not the best way to go. The disease is actually destroying her joints, the pain is a byproduct of it, so even if the painkillers didn’t have side effects (which they do) to take them and not treat the disease will allow it to progress, making the pain still harder to treat and eventually leading to deformities in the affected joints (I have seen late stage RA and it is not pretty). Please try not to think of it in terms of getting the doctor to do what you want, let him do his job, let him find the best medications to actually help slow the disease itself as well as to manage the symptoms, that’s the best thing for her.