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...You can do some moderate exercise: shoot for half and hour a day, five days a week, both stretching and weight-bearing type exercises....

...Get physically healthier: Lose at least 20 lbs (40 would be back to my ideal college weight, but let's be realistic in the beginning), stop drinking...

...try to lose the weight. ...

...Secondary gain is a psychoanalytic term for the advantages someone with pain has because of their chronic pain....

...Dealing with the daily struggles and weight of carrying around a painful chronic illness gets to be too much to bear for all of us, I think, if we...

...to wear an ugly beige wrist brace day and night....

...Those waves of light can actually trick the eyes and brain into staying alert instead of powering down....

...They allow you to stretch out in your bed at night. And they are a huge part of other things you might do with your partner

...Anyway, I pull up the sheet and the summer-weight down blanket. I turn back the old, eyeletted top hem of the sheet neatly over both. Pretty!...

...At times, RA may affect my brain and I might not be able to think as clearly as I usually do....

...I am going to wake up during the night. I am going to wake up multiple times during the night....

...There are a lot of very stressful and emotional things going on in my life right now....

...The pain becomes unbearable quickly and I have to roll over and get my weight off of that hip....

...Recently, I took a flight for the first time in a very long time....

...Right here, right now, I’m giving you permission to steal it....

...He also suggested lifestyle changes such as weight loss to help reduce mechanical stress on the knee joints....

...The intensity of the pain only increased as the night slowly moved on. I was unprepared....

...I also can believe what I am feeling and not discount my pain on a cold or rainy day....

...Maybe a clear head is in sight!...

...Maybe you could make a commitment to do yoga for a month, or light weight-lifting....