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It's a Robbery.

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By CommunityMember1148

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When I was in my 50's and told I had RA, I was too busy with a full-time job and raising two adolescent kids to put much thought into it. That was 20 years ago. Now it's a constant reminder I have this exhausting, painful disorder every time I walk or get in or out of a chair.

I've tried mostly all the traditional medicine without results because of serious side effects I would get. RA hurts everywhere, every day now. Because it has "settled" in my feet, it's now a game changer. If having it in my feet wasn't bad enough, my body somehow decided to throw neuropathy in all my once-pretty toes.

My quality of life isn't there anymore. Antidepressants make me depressed. I'm allergic to gabapentin. Pain meds are sometimes helpful so I can take my beautiful mini poodle out to his park. To see him run wild is liberating. He gives me reason to not give in to this robber.

RA sucks.

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