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...

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Caspiana 05/13/2009

Hi. I woke up feeling cold and painful, in places I haven't had any pain for awhile now. My left hand is so sore and stiff, my wrists and knees too.I think it may be the weather since we are in between seasons and it goes from hot to cool to cold then back to hot again.
I had to stay home from work today because I know if I went I would come home tonight worse. I have all this prep I need to get done for my upcoming classes and feel so useless right now. All I can keep saying to people is 'i'm sorry'. I do truly feel utterly useless :-( I hope everyone else is having a good day or at least an as good as it gets day. Take care.

reneelouise1 05/13/2009

Sos orry to hear, I had a bad day on Monday, later in the day so painful and chills and aches, went to bed most the afternoon and evening, couldn't wait to go to sleep.

Today was a good one though, I even painted.

Hope you are feeling better.

Renee

deleted_user 05/13/2009

Sorry to hear about your flare-up. I too had a bad day this week-had to call in work Monday. Felt so bad and was applogizing to everyone. Even though I felt so bad, I stil felt guilty...it is hard to have this disease take hold. And the feeling of helplessness can get over bearing. Well, I hope you feel somewhat better soon. I tell myself "This too shall pass!!" Erica

deleted_user 05/13/2009

Sorry to hear you are feeling so bad! Keep your chin up...maybe the weather will get better. LOL

God Bless!!

deleted_user 05/14/2009

I'm so sorry to hear you are feeling yucky. I empathize greatly having experienced a similar flare up this week. I gues we just "keep on keepin' on". But don't hesitate to take that time off if you need to do so. You know your body better than anyone and sometimes we have to go slow to go faster later. I personally, can accomplish much more in one day after I've rested than I can in two days if I'm feeling bad both days.

Get better soon.
-Caroline

LucyKS 05/14/2009

Sorry to hear about your flare up.
I had one yesterday because of damp/rainy weather really aggrivated my RA.
I hope you are feeling better
xx

Bistro 05/14/2009

Eventhough mine is pretty well managed these days, we are still going through some severe weather shifts and I FEEL it. I am so sorry it is hitting you so hard like this. Come back here and vent to us - we UNDERSTAND. I hope you get relief, and some nice weather very soon.

deleted_user 05/14/2009

wish i could bottle some of our sunny and heat and send it to you! so sorry you're hurting. hope you get better real soon!
brat

deleted_user 05/14/2009

Wos! This group really does help. To hear that others are going through some of the same things I have been feeling the last couple of days....well, it just helps.
I am sorry that you are feeling bad and are having some flareups. It is so hard having to tell work that I wouldn't be making it in, I did not feel like I was a reliable employee. I felt so so guilty.
I hope that you, and everyone else who posted feels better soon.

Caspiana 05/15/2009

A big *hug* to all. I crawled to work today pumped up on painkillers BUT I am not going to let this get me down. Not today anyway. Thanks so much for your kind words.

deleted_user 05/15/2009

Sorry to hear about your flare, and I hope that things get better little by little. I'm just coming off some of the worst flare days I've ever had, and during the time I thought it would never end, but eventually the worst passed. I'm still not out of the woods, but I'm definitely in a much better place than where I was two weeks ago from today (to the day.)

Don't feel useless, sometimes when our body is not as reliable as we'd like it to be, we need to exercise our mind more and try to focus on positive and fun activities and thoughts, as difficult as that may be.

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