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- Grandchild, at the grocery store, to total stranger: We're late today because Nanno needed to give herself medicine with a needle that makes her feel way better.
- While at my physical today, I asked if the blood panel I get a fe weeks before eaach visit tot he rheumatologist could be done there, saving me a trip into town.The doctor asked if I'd eaten before my 10:30 am appointment, and when I said yes, he...
- My rheumatologist has me on Celebrex and Tramadol-as-needed. We chose Celebrex only because I'd taken it in pre-RA days and found it somewhat helpful and had no side effects. The Tramadol is for bad days. I don't take it often. I have not...
- Does anyone else do this? I had a really, really good day this past week, and i have been trying to create the exact same conditions so I can have another one. Of course it's impossible. But I can't help trying, so I'm reconstucting the...
- ........consider getting a shingles vaccine if you're at the appropriate age where it's recommended. Should your treatment eventually involve a biologic, you won't be able to get the vaccine while you're taking it. I wish someone would have told...
- disclaimer: no doctors were actually hurt during the events described here.I told the Rheumatologist that I had intermittent but increasingly frequent tingling and numbness in both forearms, and occasionally in my legs. She sent me for a nerve...
- When I first heard about home delivery services for groceries, I didn't think it had anything much to do with me. Even when I was diagnosed and started having tingly razor-blade-pain hands, I didn't make the connection.One of the income lines on...
- I need to read some books about RA, or books about people dealing with RA. it's funny that i didn't want to do this until now becuase my general approach to everything in life is to order at least ten books about it, and eventually read every...
- A lot of people post with questions when first diagnosed, or when they hit a roadbloack, or need to switch meds. How is everyone doing? If you've introduced yourself int he past but you don't post often, can you give us an update?
- If you inject MTX, where do you get your disposable syringes? I assumed they'd be supplied with the prescription; it makes sense to me that if you're getting a medication that has to be injected, you'll need some vehicle for actually doing so....
- I've noticed a lot of posts recently that refer to fear, of having a sense of uncertainty about the future with RA. Just something to consider: the future is uncertain even without RA. Most of us have some sense of fear about current world...
- I have been completely blindsided by the last four days. I have done three Humira injections over the last six weeks, and three MTX injections over the last two. The latter was a change from oral MTX. I'm also taking Celebrex for inflammation...
- We talk from time to time about the importance of managing our psychological health, and of following a healthy diet, and other things that aren't specifically RA related, but which are components of the "whole" that is each of us.Hellen recently...
- When I initially saw my rheumatologist, she told me that my bloodwork did not clearly indicate RA vs. psoriatic arthritis; she was leaning towards RA at the time but not certain. At today's visit, I saw that my chart now says PsA, and asked why it...
- As silver linings go, it's woefully inadequate, but I just had the very first moment where I saw a tiny, tiny upside of RA: after years of passive aggressive arguments with my locked-in-the-dark-ages spouse about the mending pile, I was able to...