Stories

As you know from my previous stories, I have been on Simponi since October 28th. I have had cortisone injections in November, plus a hip procedure done in January. After...

I was diagnosed with JRA at 18 in 2001 in Germany, after an initial 6 months of going from doctor to doctor and only cortisone as medication. My JRA(JIA) affected...

Sometimes you have a bad month. Or two. You don’t get to choose. You don’t get to postpone. You just have to juggle your way through. In mid-December, when my...

I played a lot of sports in my younger years and worked 3 jobs to support my children. As I hit my forties everything started hurting. Old they said! 2014...

When I was about a year and a half in 1981, my left knee started to swell and stiffen. Since my family and I lived in a third world country...

Hi, I have always had pain. Doctors have told me since I was 12 that I had weak bones but could strengthen my frame by building core muscles. Great! I...

Most of my friends have no clue what we go through on a day to day life and living with RA. I am fine most days, but have had many...

I am 77 and never had any health issues. Did all my yard work, painted my house, and went to the gym 5 days a week. Last March got sick...

I am new here today and wanted to ask a question. This past year I was diagnosed with breast cancer, did chemo, radiation, and a double mastectomy. On the day...

When I was first diagnosed with RA in January 2007 I began a journey to the right medications almost immediately. It took quite a few months, even up to a...

Hi, let me introduce myself to you. I am Alyce’s body, and I am in control. She thought it was her mind, wrong, it was me, always me. And mind...

Hi all, as you know from my January 3rd update, I was going to the hospital for a hip procedure called an "intra-articular ultrasound-guided injection of cortisone." My procedure was...

Hi, following up on my November 4th story. After my first October 28th injection of Simponi, I was to decrease my prednisone by 0.5mg two weeks later, which I did...

I come from a family of RA sufferers. My mum and my older sister have it. My younger sibling hasn't been diagnosed. I was told they weren't sure I had...

RA has marched through my family - stomping its hobnail boots on my dad, his mum (nanna), my sister, and me. I remember nanna wearing her splints and letting me...

Hi all, after weeks of unexplainable swelling in my wrist, and seeing many different doctors and tests, I was diagnosed with seronegative RA in July. I am currently on MX...

Several years ago I was diagnosed with plaque psoriasis & after one year the plaques disappeared. It then resurfaced as nail psoriasis & psoriatic arthritis. This year my hands &...

Well, I finally administered my first injection of Simponi. This was last week on Wednesday. I had a virtual visit with my rheumatologist and RN and she, the RN, went...

Hi everyone, I was diagnosed around 2 years ago after a fall at work - slipped on some ice and just banged my elbow. It swelled up and after a...

I was diagnosed with RA, fibromyalgia and an overlap of lupus. I also have thyroid cancer and several other health issues. I have found some relief from the joint paint...