New to this...

Hello everyone.  I'm almost 3 years out from RNY.  I've over the past year developed painful joints.  Mostly my hips, which were never painful before wls.  It started becoming so frequent that I saw my primary in February and she ordered a MRI.  However, it showed nothing wrong.  Then about 4 months ago, I started getting pain in my elbows and thumb.  Which I finally went to see a new doc for since I moved.  Now they want me to see a rhuemy.  I go Oct 16th.  I was hoping that this board would educate me a bit about dealing with this after wls.  Now I've always wished I'd gone DS now as I'm reading your posts...I'm really wishing I would have. LOL  For pain management for now, I'm just taking loads of tylenol and using biofreeze to ease the pain. 

So anyway...HELLO everyone. 

Ask your doc about Lidoderm patches, and a cream called keprocaine. Both help, some.