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Hi Penni, just logged on to tell you that the shots in my knees worked. I can sit down and stand up without pain, and can walk down the stairs without slithering. Wish the doctor had done this sooner, it's blinders, you know. RA causes swelling in back of knees, and you can't have cortisone shots back there, it can damage the muscles. I had to argue with him after I looked it up in a rheumatology book and anatomy book, that wasn't where I hurt, I hurt under my kneecaps. Luckily Chris worked in an immunology department as a tech when he was in pharmacology school for a year, he had seen a lot of knee injections, so I felt like I knew what I was talking about, I wanted injection under the kneecap, which is common. Dr. said, sounds like you are just talking about arthritis. OK, he said he'd give it a try. Wow. Thank God. |
