Pseudo Gout
Do people with pseudo-gout have to wear a knee brace?
Do people with pseudo-gout have to wear a knee brace?ReaverDecember 2012
Over a year ago I was "diagnosed" with pseudo-gout and my rheumatologist suggested that I wear a 700 dollar knee brace. Of all the research I've done online I've never read that people with pseudo-gout were wearing a brace. Do I have something else that the doctors are not telling me. And to top it off the Colchicine and Prednisone that was prescribed have never really helped. The only relief I've ever had was having my knee drained. Any help will do. Thank you. HaywireDecember 2012
I think i can answer your question--the simple answer is that you should wear a knee brace only if it seems …show more content…
He found I had a VERY low D level and started me on treatment with high doses of D, which i continue to take twice monthly. My magnesium level was borderline low and so i take a mg. supplement as well. I had my knees "drained" a couple of times and a steroid simultaneously injected into each knee at different times--both times the knee had swelled and was very painful--this helped a great deal. I tried colchicine which did NOT help at all. Over a period of about a year, all of my pseudogout symptoms went away. I wore an INEXPENSIVE knee brace that i bought at walmart (my doctor said it was fine) only for brief periods when i had really bad knee pain. Since all of my symptoms went away, i have a feeling that in my case the Low vitamin D was a very big factor in my getting pseudogout....i was actually using a cane to walk before being diagnosed with the pseudogout--i had a lot of unsteadiness in walking which my docs all thought had to do with my longstanding and extensive disc disease at various levels in my back--after being given vitamin D replacement, i could
Do people with pseudo-gout have to wear a knee brace?ReaverDecember 2012
Over a year ago I was "diagnosed" with pseudo-gout and my rheumatologist suggested that I wear a 700 dollar knee brace. Of all the research I've done online I've never read that people with pseudo-gout were wearing a brace. Do I have something else that the doctors are not telling me. And to top it off the Colchicine and Prednisone that was prescribed have never really helped. The only relief I've ever had was having my knee drained. Any help will do. Thank you. HaywireDecember 2012
I think i can answer your question--the simple answer is that you should wear a knee brace only if it seems …show more content…
He found I had a VERY low D level and started me on treatment with high doses of D, which i continue to take twice monthly. My magnesium level was borderline low and so i take a mg. supplement as well. I had my knees "drained" a couple of times and a steroid simultaneously injected into each knee at different times--both times the knee had swelled and was very painful--this helped a great deal. I tried colchicine which did NOT help at all. Over a period of about a year, all of my pseudogout symptoms went away. I wore an INEXPENSIVE knee brace that i bought at walmart (my doctor said it was fine) only for brief periods when i had really bad knee pain. Since all of my symptoms went away, i have a feeling that in my case the Low vitamin D was a very big factor in my getting pseudogout....i was actually using a cane to walk before being diagnosed with the pseudogout--i had a lot of unsteadiness in walking which my docs all thought had to do with my longstanding and extensive disc disease at various levels in my back--after being given vitamin D replacement, i could