MDShunk

Here's irony for you. My arthritis medication comes in a childproof container. When I'm having a flare up (hands), I can't get the lid off. I have to have one of my kids take the lid off for me. Go figure.

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brian john

FDA was suppose to make an exception for arthritis medicine bottles

MDShunk

Maybe I have to ask for it that way? I've never really had trouble getting the childproof lids off until this past week. I guess I'm getting worse as time passes. During bad days, my knuckles are all swollen up like a 75 year old man.

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480sparky

Ask for a non-childproof container when you get the prescription filled.

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Andy in ATL

And you ain't but 72.

MDShunk

No, not by a long shot. I havn't quite hit 40 yet. Maybe in 20 years I can get a hand transplant?

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480sparky

Heck, sonny boy, you're just a pup!

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MDShunk

Sorry dad. I'll try to be more like you and buck up.

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Speedy Petey

Sometimes I wonder if what I think is Carpel Tunnel is actually arthritis......

gse

simple blood test, can tell if you have RA

MDShunk

I get pain in my wrists too, which I suspect might be carpel tunnel. I've never really seen a doctor for it, since what I take for the already diagnosed arthritis in my fingers takes care of my wrists too. I'm not exactly a doctor visiting type of person. When I see a doctor, it's usually to get something sewn up, or I feel like I'm on death's door. When you have prescriptions, they sorta have you tricked into coming in every once in a while. You only get so many refills at a time. I know my fingers are RA, since like gse says, it's a simple blood test. Plus, all you have to do is look at my knuckles on a bad day and you say "wow".

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HighWirey

In an an emergency, which is most of the time, I have cut the tits off of the side of the bottle. Works pretty well if you have a plastic bottle.

Best Wishes

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brian john

This getting old ain't all it is cracked up to be. I do not have RA but do have some arthritis do to a collection of injuries, mostly right wrist and knee. Hip is starting to go but they can replace that...The medicine they give us is a big help, but I can't help wonder the long term affects. I know some of heart meds I am on have bad affects liver damage, excessive coughing (some days I have coughing fits till I almost toss).

While many men avoid the doctor till the pain is unbearable, I suggest everyone get the blood pressure and cholesterol checked along with a colonoscopy

JohnJ0906

Marc, I think this is the way to go, if the kids are old enough to not get into it.

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Andy in ATL

Heck, the kids are the ones who have to open it now... Getting old does suck, I'm 37 and diagnosed with DVT last year.

JohnJ0906

Just want to be sure. Kids and medicine can be a bad combo.

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randomkiller

The bottles my pills come in have tops that you can just turn over to screw on as opposed to the other side that has wings that catch on the bottle, like a male and female side. Here I thought I was the only beat up guy with a bad knee, no feeling in a few fingers, back pain, and a little arthritis in some joints. I agree with the fact of only seeing a Dr. when I can't stop the bleeding on my own or I can't reach the spot that needs stitching. Other than having been run over on my old bike by an old blind lady I really haven't had many serious accidents.

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micromind

This is just another example of what I consider to be the biggest problem in modern society; replacing common sense with rigid enforcement of written regulations at any cost.

OK, flame on!!

MDShunk

Naw, they're all teens. I don't think they'd want any parts of it, unless someone started a rumor that you could get jacked up on what arthritis medicine.

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480sparky

PEOPLE OVER FORTY SHOULD BE DEAD

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, ... and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.) As children, we would ride in cars with no crumple zones, seatbelts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors! We ate cupcakes, bread with real butter, and drank sugar-ladened soda pop, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot about brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.

NO CELL PHONES!!!!! Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 299 channels on cable and satellite, video tape movies, DVD players, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, text messaging or Internet chat rooms! . We had friends! We went outside and found them. We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors! Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

How fortunate we were to grow up as kids before lawyers and burgeoning government regulated our lives, for our own good. How sorry I am for what those years of meddling have done to our children and grandchildren and even sorrier that we all allowed the government and politicians to get away with it!

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