So happy to have found this site!

Hello!  I've been living with RA for over 13 years.  Currently take Enbrel and Methotrexate.  Happy to have found a site to listen to others talk about their experiences so like my own.  Sometimes you feel like you are in a bubble (a bubble of pain!) you go to work, occasionally you complain, but noone really knows that every step, every movement, is pain.  I work in a mall (manager of a claire's ) and sometimes I go to the food court to eat, but watching me get up after sitting there for 15 minutes...I feel like I can't move and feel like everyone is looking at me wondering what the heck is wrong with her!  My job is very physical (been there 8 years) but lately its been harder and harder to do my job.  Just getting up and going there is a major victory, let alone all the lifting, bending over, and standing.  And of course your boss has no clue, even if you tell them.  I don't want to look like a whiner, so mostly I keep my mouth shut!  Hope to find lots of wisdom and advice on this site :)