Rheumatoid Arthritis Support Group
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory, multisystem, autoimmune disorder. It is a disabling and painful condition which can lead to substantial loss of mobility due to pain and joint destruction. The disease is also systemic in that it often also affects many extra-articular tissues throughout the body including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and...
what i want to know is whats happening in our bodies during a flare?..I know it means R.A is out of control at that moment..but is there more damage being done during a flare then not flaring?
Kim
Kim
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
I hope someone has a better answer than me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol,lol,lol
but i am very sorry you are hurting!!!! :(
I think it all depends really... When the body is being repaired, it can also break things down, causing pain and inflammation.
In our case however, it's almost always doing more damage than it was before. If you are taking homeopathic meds, then it might be breaking things down before it builds things up, so to speak.
Prednisone of course causes damage to your bones, so even if you're not flaring, if you're on prednisone, then you are doing damage.
I have a book, "the inflammation free diet plan" and she claims that people's inflammation markers should be much lower than suggested. From her, it sounds like, if you're flaring or in remission, unless your ESR is incredibly, incredibly low, then damage is occurring.
but what do I know? lol..... it's all a mystery to me!
many hugs,
Sarah
Kim