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Kadie on Rheumatoid Arthritis
Monday, March 23 2009
Does anyone have advice on how they have dealt with being in a relationship while having a chronic and variable incapacitating disease? My relationship is relatively new, just a year, and she is over 10 years younger than me. Now, during a flare, I feel ANCIENT compared to her, and am so afraid of holding her back from her life. Our biggest... Read more
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Kadie on Rheumatoid Arthritis
Tuesday, February 17 2009
After years of knee pain and several months of hand pain, I finally got tested last week: Rheumatoid factor of 248. But I can't get an appointment with a Rheumatologist to be officially dx until April. (New Orleans has a healthcare crises.)
Meanwhile, every day my hands are more swollen and have just started to twist. I looked at them last night... Read more