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Suggest Treatment For Severe Wrist Pain

Posted on Tue, 27 Sep 2016

Question: Hi, I have developed wrist pain that I have had for the past 4 months. It just started without no specific injury. I have had an x-ray and an MRI and have seen 2 doctors. The last doctor I saw said I have arthritis and prescribed an anti-inflammatory medication. I have been taking indocine every 1 to 2 days and it helps about 60 percent., I don't like taking this every day is there any natural supplement I may take to help this issue or do you think cortisone shots would help and eliminate the need for taking a pill every day or 2. Thank you

Answered by Dr. Naval Mendiratta (8 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Wrsit arthritis

Detailed Answer:
good evening

thank you for writing on health care magic

Well one needs to figure out the exact cause of wrist arthritis before going further..Cause daily painkillers is not a solutionz and we are jusr risking your kidneys...

i would like to ask a few more queries before guiding you further

1. any other joints involved?

2. did they run the arthritis test for you like rheumatoid factor or anti ccp or esr and crp

3. if you could attach the mri report, it would be helpful

4.any fever or weight loss associated

Normally if it is a single joint, we prefer getting biopsy done to see the cause.But do let me know these queries before i can guide you further

regards
dr naval

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar