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The Month Ahead: Family, Friends & the Holidays

The last few days have been worrisome for all of us. We've been worrying about those in our community who live on the East Coast in the path of Hurricane Sandy. We hope you got through it with yourself and your possessions intact. Please leave a comment to let us know how you made it through. Did the atrocious weather affect your RA? Was your... Read more Chevron

posted 11/01/2012, comments (2)|

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Carrie Beth Brown, Health Guide

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Writer, Artist and Advocate for RA and Chronic Illness

5 Ways to Save on Your Prescription Drug Costs

When you take as many medications as I do, you realize how fast the cost of the prescriptions can add up. Over the years as my health has continued to decline, due to Rheumatoid Arthritis and other associated health issues, my medication costs have increased. And since we're on a tight budget in our household, I've had to find ways to make our... Read more Chevron

posted 10/31/2012, comments (3)|

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RA & Self-Advocacy: Awaken Your Inner Dragon!

This past week has been a “doozie”, as we would say in the Midwest. I have been dealing with an insurance company change, and all that entails. I found out, much to my surprise, that it entailed more than I ever imagined. My frustration turned to anxiety, which in turned sparked fear and frustration. Finally, my... Read more Chevron

posted 10/30/2012, comments (5)|

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Leslie Rott, Health Guide

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Sociology graduate student living with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis

Kicking It: Kickboxing and RA

In a roundabout way, this is sort of a follow-up post to the one I wrote about yoga last month. In that post, I focused on what I don’t do for exercise: yoga. So I thought I would write a piece on what I do, do for exercise. While yoga isn’t my thing, kickboxing is. It took some trial and error to get there,... Read more Chevron

posted 10/30/2012, comments (2)|

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Ellen Galo

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BA-Music, MM-Music Theory, married with 1 daughter, 26...

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Messing with the meds that mess with me!

Hello to all - I've been on and off and stretching out Enbrel this year as I try to find some way to balance benefits and side effects... here is the story of yesterday and today after I had been off for the last 3 1/2 weeks. Wellk it finally got so my feet were so painful I could barely walk yesterday – felt like I’d had a... Read more Chevron

posted 10/30/2012, comments (19)|