anyone on here had any experience with this? Just had a slew of labs done to rule out a bunch of stuff and everything came back pretty good except the indicator for Rheumatoid Factor. The results say <16.0 IU/ml is negative, 16.0-19.9 IU/ml is equivocal and >20.0 IU/ml is positive and my results were 33.7 IU/ml. Basically i get what they are calling flares where my left outside edge of foot or right inside edge of foot gets seriously painful when i wake up and walk on it for several days or like the past two days where my right wrist is painful especially when training, had to use the wrap/hooks for traps yesterday. Did a bunch of reading and the treatments other than pain relievers like Nsaids and Naproxen are shitty. Biologics which are expensive as fuck and can cause bad side effects up to cancer and DMARDs like prednisone and sulfasalizine are nothing i really want to deal with. Told the wife about the test results and she was like oh no are you gonna be ok, can they treat it? And i said yeah lead supplement and i'll be all good other than a permanent side effect. Gotta seea rheumatologist in january but i'm hoping since it's sporadic and usually in the colder months that i can just keep doing the naproxen for it and when i can retire in 7 years or so and move to somewhere warm it won't be life altering and keep me put of the gym. any personal experiences with any of you peeps? Thanks in advance.
