50 year old woman...I am now 50 and was diagnosed with RA just before my 49th birthday. I have been a healthy eater forever and only drink water & 1 cup coffee/day. Looking...reactions1comment
When The Holidays Get You Down: It’s The Season Of Giving And I Have Nothing To Give...I can’t get excited about the holidays this year. It all just feels like too much. And ask anyone I know, I am a master gift giver and love bringing...reactions4comments
The Sweaty Side of Drugs...Side effects from medications can sometimes be just as uncomfortable and miserable as the condition for which a person is taking them. It's one of the challenging Catch-22 situations of...reactions30comments
Plaquenil nausea...After every side effect possible, I finally stopped taking 200mgs of Plaquenil after dinner every day. Now four days later I am still so nauseated I can barely function and...reactions1replyTreatment
What Scares Me...When I had my first joint replacements, I remember telling a friend that I was worried about the lifespan of my joints. My doctor said that the new joints were...reactions3comments
"Pregnancy in Rheumatic Diseases" at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting...Almost five years ago, I talked with my rheumatologist about altering my treatment plan so that my husband and I could try to start a family. Though my rheumatologist was...reactionscomments
strange...i have only been diagnosed with RA since Nov. 9th and things are going fairly good however, i have a question. once and a while i feel a very cool...reactionsreplies
Cure for RA...I hope you won't take this wrong it only worked for me. I got an mouth infection and was in bed for about five days. I had no RA pain...reactionsreplies
What We Really Want for Christmas...Today I made my Christmas list for Santa. Don’t those sound great? Yep, but here’s the reality: I already have a four-year-old Kindle Fire. It works great on airliners and...reactions2comments
Personal Safety and RA...Glance at the news online some morning or turn on the radio or TV at nearly any given moment and you'll find an alarming number of stories saturated with violence: shootings...reactions4comments
Pain Before Beauty?...I like to think of myself as a practical person. However, if I’m honest, I sometimes put vanity and ego before practicality, even when it comes to RA. Rheumatoid arthritis...reactions6comments
'Tis the Season...for Holiday Parties!...Hundreds of our RheumatoidArthritis.netcommunity members recently participated in the “Handling the Holidays” survey; Thanks to everyone who took the survey! As we know, the holidays can be a wonderful time...reactionscomments
What's in a Name?...I don’t use the common name of the disease I’ve had for almost three decades. Instead, I call it rheumatoid disease, and there’s a reason. As a writer, I love...reactions8comments
Where does one begin.......I began to have what I now know to be a flare in Aug. of 2007. It began with what I thought was a pinched nerve in my neck. I...reactions1comment
Sociability...I won’t deny that I love the Internet. I’ve been an avid website explorer, both for fun and for work, since the late 1990s. (Yes, I know how old that...reactionscomments
Has anyone used Orencia...I have been on Humira for the past eight years. At first with methotrexate which made me sick all of the time. Then they went to Humira with Arava but...reactions1replyTreatment
Most suitable flooring for RA...I live in Sydney, Australia and I am 60 yrars old and have RA in all my joints except hip (touch wood!) and have had a double knee replacement.I have...reactions1reply
Trials and Triumphs...I have been on this website for the past 5 months and finally I want to share. I was dx with RA last April by my primary and saw my...reactions4comments
A fresh set of eyes...In the early 2000's, I was feeling fatigued and generally out of sorts. I was repeatedly told to quit smoking, that smoking was the culprit. In 2003 I decided to...reactions1comment
