Re: Is this a kind of arthritis?

"Jofirey" <jofirey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <sweetpickleNO@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>I would suggest a rheumatologist instead of an orthopedist.
>> Gwen
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> That's a close call when you have one problem joint rather than problam 
> joint plural.
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> I saw orthopaedic doctors before RD's  THey were quick to recognize and 
> repair my carpal tunnel syndrom.  I still see then fairly often. One of
my 
> ortho guys was to one to say my acid readings might be in the high
normal 
> range but they were still high enough to cause the sausage joints I kept

> getting.  He added alopurinol to the mix and I haven't had one of those 
> toes or fingers in three years.
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> Too bad the specialties often don;t play together nicely.
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> In this case, there is a suspision of a mechanical problem with the
knee. 
> I'd want an ortho looking at that first.
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> Ortho's are ususlly better at shooting up knees than RD's or GP's
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> Jo
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It's hard to know where to turn sometimes. My experience has been primary
to 
ortho and rheumy to ortho (the first in Missouri and the second in New 
Jersey).

Each time though, it was a referral to an ortho. Missouri was my left
knee, 
New Jersey my right knee. Which BTW might have to go on hold. I was having

some problems a couple of weeks ago and went to a gynecologist. She felt 
something so I'm getting a sonogram done and have to see her the 24th.

Nell