Removing the 'crap shoot' aspect from RA treatment

Right now when you get diagnosed with rhuematoid arthritis this is the standard procedure:

1. Start with prednisone and plaquenile or a sulfa drug. Prednisone is used to reduce current inflammation for a relatively short period of time. Plaquenile is an old leprosy (really) drug that was found to also treat RA. But it can take 3 months or more to see the benefit Me? I was allergic to both prednisone and plaquenile. 
2. Oral methotrexate which can take 3 months or more to see the benefit. Methotrexate is the gold standard in treating RA but is also a very toxic chemotherapy drug where it is used in much larger doses. Me? It didn't work. My mother? After twenty years, she developed fibers in her lungs and went on oxygen for a while. Now she is off MX but her lungs are compromised.
3. Injectable methotrexate. One shot every week, unless fighting a cold or anything. Immune system is severely compromised. But it may not work for everyone either.
4. Biologics used in combination with methotrexate. But you can't take them if you had cancer. And after time, they may stop working so you need to switch to another injectable, expensive biologic.
5. New round of RA drugs, including Xeljanz (which is being heavily marketed by Pfizer to me) which is another type of drug.

 With RA, you can only hope the drug they put you on will work. When one stops working, they try something new. When they give you a new drug, you have to wait 3-6 months to see if there is any benefit for you. As you wait, the disease progresses.

The goal of treatment is to put RA into remission and reduce flares of the disease. But this treat and wait system make treatment a total crap shoot as you don't know what will work. And you may wait for a long time to see if it will work.

It sucks.

Since I am allergic to prednisone and plaquenile and I had breast cancer, my treatment options are more limited than the average bear.

But now a rocket scientist has come up with a blood test that will  help take the 'trial and error' or 'crap shoot' process out of  RA treatment. Its about time.