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...reactions4comments
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...
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...reactions2comments
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...reactions1comment
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...reactionscomments
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...reactions4comments
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...reactions4comments
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...reactions1comment
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...reactions2comments
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...reactions3comments
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...reactions1comment
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...reactions10repliesTreatment
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...reactions8comments
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...reactions10comments
new symptoms while being treated...I was diagnosed in April 2013 with RA and have been taking methotraxte since then. I experienced some relief but my doctor...reactions3repliesSymptoms
Marcia's RA Story...As a young mother and wife I frequently had sore muscles and stiff joints. At that time I didn’t think much of...reactions4comments
Run Around...I'm about ready to scream, cry, throw something, and probably punch someone. Or maybe do all of those things at once. For...reactionscomments
5 generation long of Rheumatoid with a splash of Cerebral Palsy...Hello, my name is Grace and I am 38 years old. Yes it's true RA has been a never ending plague in...reactions2comments
My story...My life has been high stress since I can remember. My dad was in Vietnam when I was a kid. My first...reactions1comment
Three decades of RA without a diagnosis...Hi. I'm 59 years old. I was diagnosed with RA FINALLY last year. I first showed arthritis in my spine when I...reactions5comments
