Hello Dr. Grief, I Have active RA and just got home from my rituxenmab therapy session at the hospital. Usually I go into remmission for a good year to two years but this time I have had to have a tretament in march which really did not calm down by Ra factors in my blood where high. So I needed to be retreated. I will be seeing my family Dr on Monday as my left hip from front of groin to side is very painful I ice use tylenol 3 pain creme but it has not settled down for the past month I have had sweets am to pm i am well over menopause I am 60 years old. I was wondering if this is a bursa with an infection maybe inside the fluid. or just RA which my hipa really have not bother me prior its my neck hands ankles feet . I am a insulin diabetic type 2 from 16 prolong years of steroids my AIC runs 7.2 60 units pm 26 units am I am on methotraxte injection every sunday I take methformin 2 tab am and pm. Today i had my infussion of solu medrial 100 ml and 1000 ml of rituxen I aslo had treatment Aug 21 with same I thought the predisone would have calmed down my hip but it has not.