The RA Pregnancy Chronicles: Morning Sickness and Other Unpleasantness...The RA Pregnancy Chronicles is a series of posts that share my experiences being pregnant while living with RA. This post was written during Week 9 of my second pregnancy...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
What Does It All Mean?...I am newly diagnosed with RA. I woke up one morning in excruciating pain. My Rheumatologist said I am a "Marker 1" for RA according to blood tests and that...Reactions0reactionsComments2 repliesNewly Diagnosed
chamma chamma chameleon...I have come to realize that those of us with RA have many of the characteristics of the chameleon. Like the chameleon, we often "blend in" with our surroundings, making...Reactions0reactionsComments3 comments
Shingles & R.A....I came down with the Shingles this past weekend and I have RA also. I had the shingles shot a year and a half ago. I was wondering if anyone...Reactions0reactionsComments3 replies
Talking to Myself...There are so many things I would like to tell myself as a child. If I could write a letter to my younger self, I feel like I could share...Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Letter to my Rheumatologist...I switched doctors about five months ago. I felt really hopeful about this new doctor who was younger and well liked by his patients. He's easy to talk to and...Reactions0reactionsComments3 replies
Love Your Body...Your body is completely amazing. Every single day your joints and muscles and organs and glands and nerves work together to keep you going. Each individual part of your body...Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Decreasing Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)...For most Americans, heartburn is just an occasional problem. For those living with RA though, regular use of NSAIDs and medications like Methotrexate or prednisone, the occasional heartburn becomes more...
June 29, 2012.That's a wrap folks. ...The last day of my job of nearly 25 years. For what seemed like forever, I had fought through pain and multiple surgeries always feeling proud of having made it...Reactions0reactionsComments2 comments
I've had RA for 17 years now and I'm only 20 but that's fine with me...I was diagnosed when I was three years old. I don't remember much, just that I had to be carried up and down the stairs in a laundry basket and...Reactions0reactionsComments1 comments
Massage, Exercise, Heat Pads, and Electrical Stimulation – Just Another Day at the Physical Therapist...In the recent RA in America poll reported on this website, 41% of respondents indicated that they had partaken in physical therapy and 11% in occupational therapy as part of...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
My journey and struggle with RA...Diagnosed in 2004, woke up one morning with what felt like a broken very swollen wrist. Since than my life has been nothing but complicated to say the least. I...Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Living & understanding the beasts unpredictability...Hi to all RA suffers….. I wrote a manuscript for publishing 10 yrs ago. Now I see it as another form of therapy. I was diagnosed with RA 1994. I...Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Diagnosed at 11, but told not to let anyone "cut me up" till I can't walk anymore. ...My mom and oldest sister were both in bandages from drastic feet surgeries, both from arthritis, and I was next. The doctor said, If I went to another doctor he...Reactions0reactionsComments1 comments
Do You Rally Around RA?...Often, if I don’t feel good, I can lie down for about an hour and I start to feel better. I call that rallying. I can usually get up and...Reactions0reactionsComments2 comments
Dealing With Felty's Syndrome w/ Sjogren's Disease...My story has a different kind of start. My symptoms came on rapidly after a care accident in 2009. I began to have swelling and pain in different joints on...Reactions0reactionsComments3 comments
It helps me... maybe it can help you....Hi, I'm Roxanne. I was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondilitis at 18, after having symptoms since 14. I was on Humira for a long time, with no results whatsoever (aside from...Reactions0reactionsComments1 comments
Flares during treatment...I have been told that the goal of treatment is to minimize symptoms as much as possible. And I have also been told that treament will never eliminate flares. So...Reactions0reactionsComments10 repliesTreatment
My life with Rheumatoid Arthritis...My life with Rheumatoid Arthritis begin rather suddenly . In 2009 I began having knee pain and some swelling, but it would come and go. Then one day I woke...Reactions0reactionsComments8 comments
What's the Cure for Annoying Advice?...If you have RA or any form of arthritis, I doubt you've been able to escape receiving at least some unwarranted and unwelcome advice about how to help or even...Reactions0reactionsComments10 comments
