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If you suddenly stopped taking an antiinflammatory, could that make arthritis worse?
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No: Stopping an anti-inflammatory medication will make the symptoms worsen but the arthritic condition will not change. In rheumatoid arthritis, drugs that change the condition are called disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Some arthritic conditions can have the natural history or progression altered. Some arthritic conditions such as osteoarthritis have no proven disease-modifying drugs.
Answered 4/28/2015
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