Can The Same Prescription Medicine Be Continued For Arthritis When We Are Unable To Visit A Doctor?

Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018

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Question : My Mother Mrs. XXXXXXX Rastogi is a patient of Arthritis . Prescriptions are attached as per her current medication . Due to some personal reasons we are not able to visit doctor since long . Need to know if we can continue with the same medication or some changes are required in the same . She used to have pain different joints . Sometimes pain stuck in any one joint for around a week badly and then released . She also has some deformation in some of her body parts like fingers .

Answered by Dr. Divya Agarwal (13 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Hi you can continue

Detailed Answer:
hi
hi you can continue the medication however since these medications are antiarthritic medicines you should check your blood at least every 3 months the blood tests are complete blood count liver function test kidney function test and blood sugar if these reports are fine medicines can be continued however it is a good idea to see your doctor at least every 6 months in order to make sure that you need to take so many medicines if her condition is better then probably he will reduce the medicine to as much as she can tolerate hope I am clear thank you

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