Link Between Avascular Necrosis and Osteoarthritis

Could you elaborate on how osteoarthritis can be a secondary condition to avascular necrosis? And how can avascular necrosis adversely affect a confirmed primary diagnosis of osteoarthriris?

Assessing risk for arthritis

Is there a scale (or a questionnaire) that measures risk for arthritis? We would like to include it in a research study with older registered nurses.

hereditary hemachromatosis

Is this also caused by Osteoarthritus or are you just born with it? What are the implications?

What can supplement Voltaren 100 SR?

I’m a RA sufferer who has been taking Voltaren SL 100mg tabs for quite a while now. The only problem, is that they seeverely wear off by about dawn and the pain wakes me up and I can no longer get comfortable enough to get back to sleep. Can I take TWO of these, one in the am and one before bed even though they are time release without any side effects? I have been on Prednisone..could not tolerate that even at a low dosage. Helped the pain greatly, but made me VERY ILL! And Methotrexate is right out! Can you recommend anything. Typing this letter is extremely painful.

Treatment Options

I’m from turkey,and I’m suffering as for nearly 2 years.my doctor advice me to use endol( contain indometzine) or naprosyn cr( contain naproksyn) and he thougth that infleximab is not good that those drugs.