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"I have been diagnosed with reactive arthritis, an autoimmune disease initiated by an infection long past cured but my body has decided to confuse it with my joints and connective tissue. The swelling of my hands, knees, shoulders, feet, etc has been relieved to some degree by prednisone, methotrexate, and NSAIDs but the NSAIDS ate away at my stomach and scared me to death with their side effects. Oxycodone, in its extended release form, has made it possible to do some of the things that I used to do (like type this) but I keep having "dosage creep" and I'm up to 80 mg twice daily after 2 years. It has been a blessing with a price but given the choice of severe pain vs a pill, I'll take the pill."