About your post to me and the calcium you take. If I am reading the post right, ....you are taking 1,160 mg. of calcium. Are you sure that is enough? Both the arthopedic doctor and the gp say I need 1,600 mg. of calcium and the added D plus mag.

Got the new bloodwork. and it sums up by saying that the anemia due to chronic disease is getting worse and my sed rate has almost doubled. The rheumie is kicking up my dose of methotrexate to 8 tablets a week. (20 mg. a week from 15 mg. a week)

You know when I went to Mayo in Dec., we considered my disease to be stable. When I got home, the doctor decreased my immunosuppressants because I was stable and he thought we could try doing so. Looks like it was a mistake. I have steadily gotten worse since about the 3rd month of that. So back up we go. My thinking is now.."If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

I've been in PT for 4 1/2 weeks and as of Friday last week I have been so crippled that it hurts (in the buttock area) to walk. The Physical Therapist thinks my SI joint is all flared up. So, all the painful gains I've made in muscle strengths in the last month will probably go downhill since I am now limited in movement again. And I only have one more week of PT allowed by insurance.

I've been giving the info Mrs. D gave me about the Indomethacin and silent bleeds real thought. I've decided I'm going to quit taking it and the Nexium to see if it brings my RBC, Hemoglobin and Hematocrit back up. Any thoughts on this?

Billye