Feb 27
Medication and surgery in rheumatoid arthritis. There are diverse views about medication for rheumatoid arthritis. Some specialists give medicines called disease-modifying anti-rheumatics extremely early after diagnosis on the theory that they will disrupt the progress of the disease, together with steroids to suppress painful inflammation. Other doctors are a lot more conservative, preferring to use ordinary pain killers and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicines at first, and only to try disease modifiers and steroids only if inflamation become severe.