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...
Well my dr apt and infusion got canceld for tomorrow due to the weather. Here in the south it has been a real hum dinger for them. So maybe next week but am just in tears with the pain. For as bad as I'm hurting tho there isn't a lot of red swelling that I can tell. But I can't drive holding the wheel hurts on the palm side of my fingers and hands. I can't grab things because it hurts my knees are atrocious. And it's strange. When it all began it started in my shoulders and most of the time when I'm on treatment my shoulders are fine but when I flare real bad it goes back to my shoulders. Any one else find that when it's bad it goes back to your starting point?
Man. I can't believe this weather. It has thrown me into a flare as well. I had to call in FMLA to work today and probably tomorrow as well.
It would be easier to list where I don't hurt than where I do. It's torturous to feel this way.
I wish you luck on getting your infusion quickly.
Regards,
Thewino
i don't know that i've experienced a 'flare' so to speak. i've been in constant pain for months. my wrists and hips since march. add in hands, ankles since july/august. and then it's just gotten worse and worse since then. my toes, the tops of my feet, all through my hands, my shoulders OMG my shoulders, my low back, my knees, my jaw. but on bad days, days like today when i feel like giving up and going back to bed the pain is so annoying, it's my hands, wrists, and hips usually. so yup, back to where it started.