Do any of you have close family members with RA. Before I was diagnoised with RA both of my daughters (27 and 29) have had a possitive test for Rheumatoid Factor. That worries me. No other test where done on either daughter. Now I wish they would have more test done. Am I just a worry wart?
My oldest daughter was diagnoised with Premature Ovarian Failure (POF) at 17 years old. It is simular to early menopause but is caused by many things including RA and other auto imune diseases. We have been told we may never no why but I still worry because some of the reasons are seroius diseases. The only test that ever was possitive was RF, 13 years ago. Doctors did not think much at the time. Most don't know a dang thing about POF anyway.
My youngest daughter was having lots of joint aches 4 years ago. She did see a specialist for RA at Kiasier. She tested possitive for RF but the doctor seemed more concered over he low weight (5'10 100 lbs) and no other test where done. She was on Depo-Provera at the time. I seached the internet and found other with joint pain on Depo-Provera. She went off of it and her pain stopped. She had two pregnacy since. The first baby she lost. My grandson was born a year ago in June. She is now having pain from the cold but I don't see swelling. She never even swelled durring pregnacy.
None of my family members had any sort of auto-immune disease anywhere along the line. I'm the first one. They usually say that if your mother had some sort of auto-immune disease that you are more likely to have a problem. It's a different story for my kids. My son was just diagnoised with type 1 diabetes (auto-immune), one daugher had Chron's, One daughter has Cholitis. I'm just waiting to see what my youngest daughter is going to ger.