Self-Care to Control Your Arthritis

1. Reducing the Side Effects of Medications
2. Tips on Controlling Your Arthritis
3. Help in Dealing with Your Physician and Other Health Care Providers

Reducing the Side Effects of Medications

• Guidelines to Help Reduce the Side-Effects of COX-2 Selective Drugs (Types of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents)
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• Guidelines to Help Reduce the Side-Effects of NSAIDs (Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents)
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• Guidelines to Help Reduce the Side-Effects of Methotrexate
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• How to Reduce Corticosteroid Side Effects
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• Nutrition and Supplements to Reduce Medication Side Effects in Myositis 
  Isabelle Dube, RD, CDN

Tips on Controlling Your Arthritis

• Coping with the Emotional Impact of Rheumatic Disease
  Angela Hunter, CSW and Roberta Horton, ACSW
  
• How to Travel With Your Arthritis
  Carol Page, PT, CHT
  
• How to Protect Your Joints
  Carol Page and Denyse Hernaez
  
• How to Use Capsaicin
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  

Help in Dealing with Your Physician and Other Health Care Providers

• Doctor/Patient Communication 
  Adapted from a talk at The Myositis Support Group of the Hospital for Special Surgery
  Barbara Mazie, PhD.
  
  
• About Informed Consent
  Betsy Iger