A Young Wife’s Tale

Some of the simplest remedies that help him are things like over the counter heat patches, heating pads, and hot baths with epsom salts. Another thing that has helped David is chiropractic care.

I’ve blogged before about the Back 2 Life Machine. It was very helpful when he was flaring so badly the muscles in his back would spasm. You could actually see the muscles in his lower back twitching. The Back 2 Life Machine helped stretch David’s lower back very gently.

At different times David’s rheumatologists have given him injections in his back of things like methotrexate and cortisone. They typically only offered mild relief.
Doctors have prescribed many different medications to help David with his pain. Some of the medications that have given David significant relief are hydrocodone, Lyrica, Flexeril and Cymbalta. There was only one time when David asked a doctor for pain medication, and the doctor didn’t want to (but he’s the horrible rheumatologist who didn’t think David had Psoriatic Arthritis). I convinced him to give David the medicine, and we found a new rheumy ASAP.

Awhile back I wrote a blog post called How You Can Help David. I figured it was time for an update. Here are some more ways you can help.

1. Pray that we would get different health insurance that would cover David’s Humira and Celebrex.
2. Pray that the medications put David’s arthritis in remission.

So, here’s a list of things you can do specifically for David.
1. Play video games with him. It’s David’s favorite thing to do.
2. Invite him over to your house to play video games or come over and play games with him. XBox Live is great, but actually sitting next to someone, sharing a bowl of popcorn is so much better.