Hi Petti
Sorry to be so late with my welcome (if you have a look at this
thread you will understand why ... but be prepared for a good laugh!).
Welcome to the forum. A great place to be for support and information; lots of folk, lots of knowledge and a wealth of tried and tested experiences! Glad you have found us and NRAS!
I'm Lyn, married to Mike, we have four children (well I call them children but perhaps it's time to stop!), Abby 23, Ian and Jake 17, and Louis 16. All four in various stages of education! We live in Thornton Cleveleys in north west Lancashire. I was diagnosed with RA 23 years ago and have since run the gamut of medication and had lots of surgical procedures along the way. Currently on Enbrel, Leflunomide, Prednisolone and Naproxen, and a wagon load of pain killers! Struggling at the moment after knee surgery last summer, a major flare in Cyprus of all places, two lots of knee aspirations and joint injections in 7 weeks, a depo injection that didn't work and basically RA that has not been controlled for the last 12 months! But heyho... no-one said life with RA would be easy and all the lovely friends I have made make it very worthwhile (mostly!)
I do hope you are started on medication very soon. The guidelines are the earlier the better. If you're not happy do consider changing hospitals at this stage because you're going to be seeing plenty of them in the future.
Good luck with whatever you decide. Do keep posting, look forward to getting to know you
Lyn x
