RA Beginning: Pain With Slightest Movement...Then began the trial and error of finding the right medications for me. After three years or so it seems I’ve found the meds that work best for me.... By CommunityMembere52bd21 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments1 comments
My Husband’s Post Knee Replacement Infection Saga...Eight months after a seemingly smooth knee replacement surgery, my husband developed a staph aureus infection in the knee and needed to have it opened... By JillS1 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments16 comments
Getting a diagnosis took me ten years...Several years, moving several times, I finally found a Dr whose first response to my complaints wasn’t “well you might want to lose weight," instead he... By sue20fan1 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments6 comments
12 Days of Christmas - RA version...On the Eighth day of Christmas my RA gave to me Eight fingers fumbling Seven different medications Six nodules forming Five important things forgotten... By 2 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments0 comments
New and Overwhelmed...About a month ago, right after coming home from vacation, I had 2 nights (starting around 2 am each night) of EXCRUCIATING pain in 2 fingers of...Reactions0reactionsComments1 replies
Paula Jayne White...She is grateful for the Affordable Care Act, without which she never would have been able to pursue a freelance career, and participates in activism to... By Editorial Team 2 min readBookmark for later
TK Sellman...“People know me as a high energy person, but what they don’t see is the me who doesn’t leave the house on the days when everything feels like a... By Editorial Team 2 min readBookmark for later
I'm Not Normal - These Crazy RA Drugs...I had had my right knee replaced just 7 months prior and my left had been a little sore due it having some mild arthritis and having had to... By rutley6 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments5 comments
Electric shock...I woke up in the middle of the night to unbelievable pain and burning in hands and wrists also in my ankles to my feet....Reactions0reactionsComments2 repliesSymptoms
My Pain...I yell and tear at the cloak begging for a fight, a fight I know I can not win, so I lay there cold and excepting, the pain... By nandubb0282 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments9 comments
The very confusing world of autoimmune diseases...inflammation... inflammatory feeling around heart (gee should have had an echo when I had insurance...) and sharp intolerable pain in the area of my right... By gingerrn4 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments9 comments
The Emotional Toll of RA...Studies have shown that people with RA are at high risk for depression and anxiety.... By Editorial Team 2 min readBookmark for later
Lupus and RA...individuals with SLE is better today than it has ever been, largely due to treatment breakthroughs, the likelihood that the disease will prove fatal is still high... By Editorial Team 2 min readBookmark for later
Looking for real data...I kept telling him I may be experiencing Radiculopathy because I could feel my wrists tingling. they are right now as I type this.... By 5 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments1 comments
Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Fish Oil...Fish oil can interact with certain medications such as blood thinners or medications used for high blood pressure.... By Editorial Team 2 min readBookmark for later
Not the right Rheumatologist for me...I told her that I've dropped two cups of coffee from my right hand in the past wekk - one in my car!...Reactions0reactionsComments4 repliesTreatment
In the Meantime...Once at the ED, after an accident unrelated to my RA, my room was right by the nurses' station.... By Sophieh2 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments12 comments
Bursitis at night in hips.....This only happens at night.. My I T Bands are tight..... RA related?...Reactions0reactionsComments2 repliesSymptoms
Hearing Loss...These include extended high-frequency audiometry and pure tone audiometry, among others.... By Editorial Team 3 min readBookmark for later
Breathe in, Breathe out....I was diagnosed with RA right around my 40th birthday, although looking back my doctor and I agree that I was probably having flares since my early thirties... By sueclark1 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments3 comments