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- Hey, hey sunshiney day...and right now, at this very moment there are fingers of sunshine peaking through my bedroom window and it feels good to be alive, to see winter start to crumble and fall to her knees ever so slightly.I haven't been on here...
- So the sun came out when I started Remicade. Hands zooming on the keyboard, feet tapping, energy, happiness. And now I appear to be back to dodging my RA shadow again...overwhelming fatigue, really stiff ankles and crappo hands. Does anyone else...
- I started my first remicade infusion two weeks ago and my joints seem even more inflammed. Is this possible? Has anyone else experienced this with a biologic? This is my first time being on one.....
- I saw my rheumatologist today and she wanted to know why I hadn't been in for six months, noting the state of affairs of my knuckles, swollen ankles and a stingy right hip that won't move properly.I thought about her concerned scolding, and told her...
- So I guess I was wondering as my toes and fingers and hips and shoulders and ankles and wrists freeze up and freefall into a landslide of mangled joints.....when do you quit and give up work? Are you still working? What gets you through? Do your...
- I noticed a lot of us have pets. So I thought it would be fun to find out who our pets are and what they do to comfort us through this disease. My pet is a mackerel tabby cat-Stellaluna. She is long and skinny and 9 months old and I love the way she...
- Looking for insight/advice. I have RA in my hands, wrists, hips and shoulders and I am on MTX, Plaquenil at present (biologics pending-I haven't committed yet).In the last week or two I have noticed a burning in my feet-on the soles and pain in the...
- My hands have been driving me nuts. Trouble driving, typing, gardenng..the usual gamet of activities of daily living that makes you realize your are not quite on a level playing field as everyone else.So last week, the rheumatologist gave me...
- Anyone ever go on short term disability in order to recuperate from RA? I seem to be slogging through my life on a daily basis - hands are really bad and neck and shoulder problems and don't know if I just need to take off several weeks to rest and...
- I know its trivial, but I have to mentally prepare for my weekly MTX injections. I swab the site, wait another ten minutes, take the cap off the needle, hold the needle for another five minutes and then take a deep breath and stab my skin. Sometimes...
- I am slowly seeing my way out of the fog today...it's the day after my Methotrexate injection and my wee brain is finally clearing up. It used to annoy me-being slower, word searching, trying to stay on task-after Methotrexate. I thought it would...
- Remember pin cushions from home ec classes? Well today I received three injections-two in my hips and one in my thigh (methotrexate) and I got to thinking that I was becoming a pin cushion and wouldn't it be nice to be able to hand stitch again or...
- ....and really that's it. That's what I would do and now I wear nicely disguised orthopedic shoes with wide widths and low soles and I feel like a granola crunching grandma with no style..and no disrespect to the granola crunching grandma's but I...
- Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians. We have had amazing sunshine in my part of Ontario for three days and I bask in this sun and let my limbs get lazy and sunsoaked. I forget about my recent bout of hip pain and drink good coffee and read the...
- I have to drive a lot for work. In the past year, I have noticed I can only go for an hour before I am seized with pain to my driving leg from the hip to the ankle. By the time I get to a client's house I am in agony (This is the same when sitting...