Your doctor will want to know how long it's been since you had any problems, plus do some tests. If everything looks great, your doctor may slowly lower the dose of your medications, usually starting with any pain-reliever you take, like aspirin, ibuprofen, or naproxen.
You want to keep a constant and effective level of your rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drugs in your system, so if you are able to cut back on your medicine, it would be a slow change. It helps if you take your medicine at the same time every day.