Asking For an RA Treatment Change

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DR. JAIN: Just being good, isn’t good enough.

Patients should always feel free to start that conversation about wanting to change treatment. It can be something as simple as, “I don’t think this is working like it used to,” or “I think it’s time for a change.”

Come up with a list of the symptoms they are having on their current treatment, and bring this up early in the patient visit.

It’s my job to try to figure out what’s so important to them, and within that, then try to personalize and customize a treatment regimen for them.

There’s no doubt I might’ve made you better with X, Y, or Z treatment. But how good is good enough?

Well, nowadays, it’s gotta be really, really good.

We have multiple treatments and multiple medications to help control your disease. We shouldn’t settle for, you know, partially controlled disease.

We’re really shooting for the best control we can get.