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2011 Ford Ironman world championship, thanks for the gift RA

I won a lottery slot for Ironman 2011 at KONA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It has still not set in as of yet however as time passes I know much training is still needed and it will set in. I don't have many words to say right now so I'll leave with this, In 2003 I was very sick, I had RA with a sed rate of over 250 the doctor had me on 14.5 of... Read more Chevron

posted 04/17/2011, comments (2)|

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54 years with RA

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Fifty-Four Years in the Making, My RA onset story by Lyn Burnstine

I always say I got RA in 1956, when I was twenty-three, but reading some of the other stories on RA blogs of "early warning signs" years before full-fledged RA, I am more than ever convinced that the times when I had to cancel my piano lessons due to sore wrists were omens. At nineteen, I left the music conservatory at Millikin University to marry... Read more Chevron

posted 04/13/2011, comments (9)|

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Jennie Roe, Health Guide

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I'm in my 50s and still learning how to manage RA following my diagnosis in June 2010.

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The Long and Winding Road to Diagnosis

Greetings! While I am fairly IT-savvy and well-accustomed to sourcing information from the web, I am relatively new to blogging. I have generally played the part of the invisible voyeur, stealthily scrutinising others' blogs to feed my insatiable appetite for information, and only rarely reaching out with a comment or personal... Read more Chevron

posted 03/28/2011, comments (3)|

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felice001

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I am a 35 year old mother to 2 young children. I hav struggled with chronic fatigue and just overall feeling sick for about 6 months now. Recently I found out that I have an elevated RA factor of 49.5. The only joints that hurt me are my left wrist and right knee with severe lower back stiffness and pain at times. I have almost constant twitching in my muscles. Some days it takes all I have to lift a gallon of milk due to weakness and burning in my muscles. I have not yet seen a Rheumatoidalogist because I don't have insurance so I have not had a diagnosis and am not being treated with anything for these symptoms so far. I do take citalapram for depression and anxiety though. pain

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35 years old with an RA factor of 49.5.

Hello. I am a 35 year old mother of 2 and just found out that I have an elevated RA factor of 49.5. I was hospitalized a couple months ago or so for severe burning in my chest, arms, and stomch with total loss of stregth in my muscles. My muscles also burned. I lost 10 pounds in 3 weeks due to thess episodes. They came and went for a month. When... Read more Chevron

posted 03/23/2011, comments (3)|

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I was dx with RA in 2008 along with Fibro. Pain is the game, with IBS and nausea at times.

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RA pain, how does it feel?

Hi everyone. It's 7:10am and I am up because my cat's are hungry. Anyway, I was wondering. Does pain of RA turn off and on? Well, typing right now, my right hand is getting tired. BTW: I have Fibro too. But, this I don't normally feel so fast. My back is killing me from lifting groceries 2 days ago. ... Read more Chevron

posted 01/28/2011, comments (8)|

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