Well, it'll be two years this year that I was diagnosed with RA. I've been on a constant roller coaster and now things are finally looking better. I just began Humira a month ago and immediately after injecting it the very next day I woke up with no morning stiffness. I didn't get my hopes up it would last but after a month later I feel the best I've felt in 8 years. I feel like crying when I think about it, it's like a miracle. I've been on such a roller coaster for almost 10 years and finally some relief and a diagnosis. I'm finally just beginning to feel comfortable enough with the disease to open up to people about it and I'm beginning to accept it. I still have days I feel tired but not waking up with morning stiffness at least makes me feel somewhat 22 again. It's been a long long road but the clouds are looking more and more blue everyday. But now that I'm feeling better I have new concerns and questions for everyone. I want to go back to college and pick up my life where I left off. I'm concerned that if I begin working I'm going to lose all of my financial benefits that cover all of my medicines and hospital bills. If I go back to college and after I get my degree and begin working what kind of health insurance is out there to help people with RA? And if I get my degree and get out there working a 40,000 dollar a year job is not going to cover my financial expenses. So where do I go? What do I do? I don't want to stay a broke hermit with no job the rest of my life because I have RA but I can't afford to lose the medicine that's keeping me afloat either right now. Any suggestions?

