Stories

I have come to realize over the 18+ year of "friendship" with RA that from time to time I need to take stock by doing a distinct and considerable reality...

2015 is going to be a great year for me. I know it. The last two and a half years have been a complete nightmare – trying to accept having...

Hello everyone, my name is Mindy. I am 20 years old from Idaho and i was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis at age 3. I have been living with this...

Just like this classic paradox, many of us with RA have the same love/hate relationship with the corticosteroids we often have little choice but to take to keep our RA...

I'm offended and tired of people and mostly Dr.s saying we are abusing our painkillers. An addicted person would likely run out of pain killers before it's time and demanding them...

I was diagnosed in 1998. Fatigue and constant joint and body pain followed by a diagnosis of Parvovirus. That illness flipped the RA switch...also fibromyalgia diagnosis. I had to be...

I was diagnosed with RA in 2003, when the Dr. came in an said I had RA, I really wasn't even paying attention. At the time I was working a...

R.A What is R.A.? What is it to you? What is my pain that only I work through? It is sadness. It is alone. It is my hands twisted like...

Like many others, I'm glad I was diagnosed with RA in my early 40s, I believe I was 41. I already had fibromyalgia, I believe longer than what I knew...

Three years ago while working in our yard I was bitten by a common spider. Little did I know what was in store for me. First were the huge bumps...

My grandmother had sever RA and passed when I was 13. She was bed ridden For those 13 years with it. I started experience fatigue and joint pain at 13...

I have been fighting RA for 20 years. I was in my early 30's when I was put on methotrexate. I am 56 and now on xeljanz, and piroxicam. I...

I am a 44 year old RN...I have not been told that I have RA by a Rheumatologist, but my positive RA factor and symptoms and my primary MD all...

I'm one of the lucky ones with this disease. I wasn't diagnosed till I was 42 which means I had 42 years of health. I was extremely healthy. I had...

In my late twenties, a lady who worked in the same building as me, someone I barely knew, came up to me one day and told me she was psychic...

Well I have been sick off and on since I was 10 years old. That's right TEN. Fainting in the heat, lack of flexibility, bowing the ankles, stiffness, unexplained illnesses...

So I switched insurance plans effective November 1 and I still haven’t been able to get prior authorization for my Humira at Duane Reade, my pharmacy of choice in NYC...

In 2010 on the 26th of January, my husband collapsed and was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, after 45 years of heavy smoking. We were sole mates so for me...

1. The unconditional support of my family and boyfriend 2. The support of my friends 3. The health and happiness of my family and friends 4. My Birkenstocks 5. Hand...

Despite this being a wonderful, joy filled time of year it often brings with it demands that can overwhelm those of us with RA or other chronic conditions. My personal...