I have Rheumatiod Arthritis and Lyrica ( my medication ) is not helping. I'm having a really bad flare, head to toe pain, but mostly in my hands. Ice packs and cold cloths aswell as warm packs seem to make it worse, and my Rheumatologist is on holidays until the 20th of January. My hands are too painful to do everyday…
Hi Back in September I started getting pains in my right knee and in the morning i'd wake up with really stiff hands. The stiffness would take a while to ease off and the pain would continue through the day, I was losing the strength to grip and doing things like typing or trying to hold a pen were difficult. I then…
I am a denial aged 17 soon to be 18, in 2012 I gradually started to fall ill getting worse and worse this started with a serious chest infection which then I started to feel tired and constantly drained I then stopped eating and lost loads of weight my mum was taking me to the doctors and they were doing blood test after…
I've just got back from seeing the rheumatologist and we both decided that the next step in helping me with my arthritis as nothing else seems to be working would be medication. I don't particularly like taking medication unless I have too as everything I ever take I always get all the side effects which is what made me…
Hi, I have RA and I've noticed that the hot weather gives my bones grief instead of winter, or if winter does hurt too by the time summer rolls around I can't remember :? Does anyone else find that the heat is bothersome? Thanks.
Hi I am posting on behalf of my 12 year old daughter. She was just diagnosed in August this year with juvenile arthritis. She has had a number of joint injections and has taken oral methotrexate. For a number of reasons she has started methotrexate injections three weeks ago. She currently attends the children's hospital…
Hi all! I started a website; www.arthritisinyoungpeople.com to try and help raise the awareness of the terrible disease in children and young adults. I was diagnosed with JIA at the age of 9. Growing up with it was difficult and as I got older and come to terms with not being able to make it as a professional basketball…
Hello everyone, I'm 26, so technically I'm a bit old to be posting in here, but I don't feel comfortable talking to anyone else... I've only just been diagnosed thanks to a doctor not believing I was in pain for years, but have has symptoms since a young teenager. I do have osteo rather than juvenile arthritis, but I dread…
I've had RA since December so just coming up for a year although wasn't treated until may due to hospital making a mistake on my diagnosis's, I'm on methotrexate which has reduced the pain a lot although not completely but that is bearable the thing I'm finding it hard with is that I'm constantly tired no matter how long…
I am a 21 year old woman who has had my run of health problems(I have epilepsy, have had kidney failure and had liver failure at the age of 7, luckily the liver was saved, skin cancer-benign, had to have my tonsils removed 2 months ago, etc, etc) but have always been in fairly good shape and athletic. Recently I haven't…
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