Rheumatoid Arthritis

Stress is one things that doesn't help. When a person feels stress their RA hurts even more. A great way to help reduce the pain is to find ways to help relieve stress. This blog is one of my ways to relax, share, and de-stress. Finding ways to relax is very important. Rheumatoid Arthritis it self is an address stress to life. There are time when the pain, tiredness, and the destruction of the body or lack of being able to move are just more than a person can bare. No one wants to have to need someone to do daily functions. Rheumatoid Arthritis can affect anyone children, women, and men. It is treatable, but not curable. One of the biggest stress is affording the medical treatment. If a person is able most Rheumatoid Arthritis can be treated by doctors and/or change of diet so a person can live a normal life. Left untreated and the RA damage will soon be visible. My life is currently dependent on my family. Without them I highly doubt I would be able to keep up the daily work t...

Sometimes I wonder how much pain we have to endure. I still can't eat much. My jaw doesn't open as much as it used to and it often hurts when I chew. It is not my teeth, it my jaw bone. My left arm won't extend all the way. The elbow just won't open all the way. I keep trying to stretch or exercise to see if I can get the elbow to open more. My neck and back have been bothering me for the last two days. Today I Just hurt all over. Wrist, ankles, and toes had to join the fun too. I put a call into the clinic to see if I can get some prednisone. They don't like to give prednisone to me, but I know it will take the pain away for a while. It would be nice to eat a meal without hurting so much. It seems like there is tons to do. I'm trying my best to learn my job, which thankfully is a sit down computer dispatch job. The lawn needs mowed. The kids clothes need to be gone through for school starting in less than month. My husband is exhausted...he has to help ...

Thankfully the test results were not as bad as I though they were going to be. No surprise my number which indicated I need iron was down to 10.something. I'll have to continue to take iron everyday until the number go back up. Of course it doesn't help that my periods have been strong and worse than normal. Plus my rheumatoid arthritis flares up a week before my period. A period is already rough for women and can make them tired, making it a double whammy for my energy with the iron. The other problem with my blood work indicated something about allergies. Well I have a sinus infection so that explains that. I got some antibiotic to hopefully get ride of the infection. The sinus infection is a third whammy to my energy level. Now the best part, my rheumatoid arthritis is now affecting my jaw. It makes since the jaw has a joint to open and close my mouth. I've been having a hard time eating off and on for the last month. You would think I would have lost some weight but...

The last few weeks have been very hard. Two weeks ago I got a call from my doctor on my blood test. (Because I take methotrexate I have to have a blood test every month before the doctor will give me a refill.) I don't know exactly what is wrong with the blood test but I have an appointment this Tuesday to find out. (It took some time for me to arrange a weekday off for the appointment because of my new job with Charter. I was in training and couldn't miss my training class.) What I did find out is that I'm sever anemic, meaning I need to increase my iron. I've already been tired but I thought it was because of a sinus infection I have had. This has happened before but the nurse said it was really bad but couldn't tell me more. Now I don't feel well. I'm cold all the time. I really want and need to see the doctor because I want to know what is going on and at the same time I want to do my best to show my new job that made a great choice hiring me.  (My bos...