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Chronic inflammation, non-dominant hand, wrist
Hi, a little over 2 months ago recieved an antibiotic in Quinoline family for 7 days. Early in dose, experienced severe shoulder pain, then swelling in wrist and severe pain that seemed to move around hand. Shoulder pain subsided after a couple of weeks of muscle relaxers but hand pain became more severe. It seemed that no part was untouched, even intense pain in the palm. I am now past 2 months of complete immobility in hand and wrist. ANA is positive, 1:160 as well.
On waiting list to see neurologist and reumatologist. Am 56 years old.
Anyone else? I live in Canada.
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I have no fluoroquinolone related problems, but a couple of family members who have had negative reactions.
See:
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/fda-drug-safety-podcasts/fda-drug-safety-podcast-fda-updates-warnings-oral-and-injectable-fluoroquinolone-antibiotics-due
I don't know why they're still on the market. I've heard that there are possibly those who are genetically prone to get adverse reactions, in which case why not recommend testing people first before assuming that they're harmless?
Now diagnosed with CRPS, awhile ago now.
I don’t know what ANA is, but I had swelling from overuse in my hands and they deemed it was just the osteoarthritis OA that I have my hands and wrists are riddled with it. And have been for about 20 years. I am 68 today however this past September, someone here had mentioned tart cherry capsules. I am prone to gout flares also for 20 years. I bought ZAZZEE tart cherry capsules on Amazon and within 24 hours, I could move my hands again. After that, I had my doctor test me for high uric acid levels and I had high uric acid levels! That meant my pain and inflammation was coming from gout and not from the OA! Can you imagine that suffering for 30 years with pain inflammation and swelling from something you weren’t being treated for and they were too lazy to look beyond the obvious on the x-rays! So after that, I asked her to put me on allopurinol for gout because my dad was on that and gout is hereditary. She agreed and I had even better results throughout the rest of my body. I hope you get some ideas and things here you can try and also get second opinions from other doctors as not all doctors are created equal. Also, another great thing is diclofenac 3%. You can get one percent readily over-the-counter, but the alcohol in it makes me nauseous so I like the 3%. I had to fight this time to get it because they took it out of the formulary and they wanted to give me the medicine @mayonaise28 mentioned. I looked it up and it was horrible. I don’t know why they still keep that in the formulary when it’s such a bad negative toxic thing to people and it doesn’t treat as well as things like diclofenac and Voltaren. Try those topical things and you might have good luck!