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...on both hands...My Rheumatologist ran a million blood test around the early part of March...all came out good except for the arthritic markers...which were...

...Thank you for reading my rant,and hello fellow RA'ers and I too think the name should be changed to RD or something anything that dose not contain the word...

...There were times he would take a deep breath and tell me he loved me before giving me space to work through the fact that he wasn't out to...

...of this need to go without make-up I assumed I would feel ugly and not want to go out of my house and that somehow I would not be "me"...

...I am an only child of parents who were also only children, so no living family....

...Why do so many of us feel as though we are not being listened to, or heard, when for the most part, we all have the same story to...

...We have heard the old cliche to take it "One day at a time" but with multiple chronic illness, it's not true....

...Or if it was it needed to be with someone who knew what they were doing. Either way, this experience scared me away from getting massages....

...I started doing research on foods that were good for inflammation and I started juicing them everyday....

...It felt like two pitbull dogs were biting me and not letting go for 2 days straight in different areas of my body....

...I can’t blame the person who thought they were telling on me, but I can blame society for not being educated on disability....

...A few other bad ones were peanuts, soy, oats, Fritos corn chips, and black pepper....

...In the meantime, there were a lot of pain medications, lot of Aleve, lot of useless appointments, a lot of jumping through hoops and blowing past red tape...

...My mom suffered with severe RA for yrs before she passed in 1995 & the best treatment options back then were gold shots and prednisone--pitiful....

...He said there were no other options left for me and refered me to U Of I hospital in Iowa city Iowa....

...I absolutely despise that word! Not just for myself but for anyone who has been given that label....

...If I were to tell him to early he’d assume it was the medicine and put me back into the hospital. I’ve had enough time in that hospital....

...It is my hands twisted like the willow blowing in the summer wind. It is pain to feel the sun, to walk, never to run....

...I have heard many people say that after having a child, women will “forget” the intense pain of child birth....