Living

I have had dry skin for most of my life but did not know, until several years after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), that I also had a very...

Ugh. Pain. It’s... painful! As I write this, I’m sitting here in the special kind of pain that affects people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and chronic illness more than most...

Recently, I wrote an article sharing my over-the-counter toolbox of items that help me manage life with rheumatoid arthritis. One of those items, specifically, garnered a lot of questions and...

I’m kind of known for napping. Online and IRL (in real life). If I don’t text back or I don’t get to an email immediately, it is because I am...

Pain can disrupt normal life in a way that can be devastating. Pain can also just be an annoyance. Sometimes pain can make you cry and, sometimes, it can only...

Joint pain didn’t just show up one day and surprise me. In fact, it’s honestly hard to remember a time in my life when I didn’t ache. It started during...

One definition of productivity is "the effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input." That sounds like a...

Living with rheumatoid arthritis is incredibly tough at any age. But for kids with the disease, there are unique challenges to face. Navigating things like sleepovers, first dances, and school...

It strikes me that people with chronic conditions like rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have to endure a lot of fights. It’s not because we choose them or are especially argumentative people...

On Friday, February 19th, 2021, I got my first COVID-19 vaccine dose. It was an exciting (and, honestly, a rather odd) time. I'm very, very fortunate to have gotten a...

In January 2021, the RheumatoidArthritis.net Editorial Team wrote an amazing article, “What Is the Autoimmune Protocol Diet?.” It was a fascinating article that focused on nutrition’s potential role in helping...

…the medication saga continues! This past December (2020), we didn’t see any improvement with the Orencia so my rheumatologist and I decided to switch to another medication. I fully stopped...

Time. It’s something all of us only have a limited supply of and there’s nothing on Earth, short of a DeLorean going 88 miles per hour, that can give you...

Ever since I was in my 20s, I’ve always enjoyed a really good foot massage. Not just a light-handed rubbing of the skin, but a massage with pressure that digs...

Editor's note: This article belongs to a three-part series on getting better sleep with rheumatoid arthritis and other arthritis-related conditions. Check out the first article on choosing the right mattress...

My official diagnosis with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) came quite out of the blue. RA was never expected to be the cause of my chronic pain and joint issues I have...

Receiving a new diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is not ideal, nor is it fun in any way. If you’re in the process of getting diagnosed or you have just...

I’ve previously written articles on how to care for your pets when you are flared. But I realized, in my most recent one, I only talked about dogs! As someone...