A few tips from rheumatologists for rheumatology patients

  Rheumatic disease is a class of syndromes, the vast majority of systemic diseases, in medicine was once helpless to do anything about it, also known as immortal cancer, but that was the past era of scientific underdevelopment, there are now many new breakthroughs in the field of rheumatic disease, rheumatic disease is not terrible, the key is that you have to have a normal mindset to see, to accept, to common challenges. At the same time in the process of the majority of patients to seek medical treatment will have a lot of frustration, take many detours, but also by many doctors, medical trust deception, here to the majority of patients to make a few suggestions: 1, claiming that “can be cured” or “can be cured”, do not believe. With the current medical means, only stabilize the disease, but can not promote a cure. Please be careful! Especially small advertisements, small hospitals, small clinics, etc., for profit, regardless of the patient’s body and mind medical units or institutions!  2, the propaganda “deformed joints can be restored through non-surgical treatment” or “bridged joints can be resolved through non-surgical treatment” is not to be believed. Joints that have been deformed or bridged can only be treated by surgical means.  3.Patients who have not been diagnosed, please go to the regular hospital for diagnosis and examination. We recommend that it is best to go to a regular national hospital, but not to a specialized hospital. (Generally speaking, specialist hospitals are private in nature.)  4, traditional Chinese medicine does have a unique therapeutic effect on rheumatism, and is also worth studying and promoting. But do not think that Chinese medicine must not have side effects, and abandon the treatment of Western medicine, the treatment of the two is not contradictory, and the status of the two is not interchangeable, to take drugs under the doctor’s orders. I’ll give you an example, “Leigongteng” is a traditional Chinese medicine, but it has a lot of side effects, but the effect in the treatment of some diseases is really good, so some unscrupulous “wandering doctors” think they are smart, grind it into powder, add hormones, add The actual “special effect medicine”, “the elixir of the reincarnation of Hua Tuo” to disregard the patient’s body and mind, to harm the patient! I do not know, this is a serious violation of the law, and “murderer” no different!  5, massage and other forms of physical therapy is only auxiliary treatment, and only under the guidance of a professional doctor can be carried out. If you have been diagnosed with rheumatic diseases, you must consider whether to use drugs under the guidance of a professional doctor. How to use the medicine, what medicine to use, how much medicine to use. What tests to do, what to pay attention to in general, etc.  6, the patient’s experience can be referred to, especially the views of some old patients, very valuable reference, but no matter who, when it comes to physical safety issues, please be sure to go to the regular hospital consultation! Remember! Be careful to screen any advice or suggestions.  7, any kind of method, for each person’s treatment effect may vary, can not hearsay, do not take their own body for medical experiments, to believe in the current science.  8, to establish long-term confidence in the fight against the disease, taking medication is part of your life, that is, eating on the medication, do not feel that the disease symptoms have been relieved for a period of time is very obvious, do not follow medical advice to privately stop, reduce the medication, the examination, do not do the examination, that will have unintended serious consequences.