Every day is different

[loneil]

I never know from one day to the next what I will feel like. I go to bed with a prayer that tomorrow will be better. Sometimes it is sometimes it's not. No matter. I still do daily stretches and try to walk alot when the weather permits. I go have a massage every 2 wks to help loosen up tight and sore muscles. The therapist is local and a friend so she is really careful not to overdo it when I am too sore but will increase pressure whenever I can handle it. I try to stay busy. I go see my 83 yr old mother daily. She also struggles with arthritis in her back and hands. Cold weather really bothers me. I can really tell when weather fronts come in, I start to ache. Being positive is very important. Although hard sometimes.

[Thorn]

I know exactly how you feel. I have RA/Lupus/Fibro and today was a good day. I did dishes and a few loads of laundry. The two days before that, I was chair and bed bound, crying even with pain killers, because the entire body felt like it was pinned under a mac truck. I even ran a slight fever and felt like my kidneys were bursting. I am still waiting on a few blood tests to rule out the lupus part. I'll have a good day and that night I will suffer from overdoing things, and even though I am on Effexor XR and Ativan to relieve that depressive/anxiety, I'll cry because it seems so unfair to have such a teasingly great day only to have several bad days following.......

[ltzusa 1]

Hey friends, This is my first experience posting a thread so be patient with me please. I am a newly diagnosed RF and Strong + anti-CCP RA patient. Yuck, that sounds so impersonal. Sorry. Anyway, I am desperate for someone in my same position to chat with. I have soooo many ?'s and I have no idea how to go about finding someone that can assist me in my many questions. If any of you have been living with RA and would be willing to let me pry into the depths of your knowledge, I would be ever so grateful. I was dx about 1 month ago. Dx was based on History and Physical and extensive blood work, had an MRI yesterday and will meet with my rheumy on Tues of next week for results of "joint destruction" wow...that sounds lovely (not) I do believe, as does my dr. that I am in denial. When I went to her originally, I was convinced she was going to tell me I had fibromyalgia. So you can imagine my surprise when she told me my blood results showed hypothyroidism and... oh yeah...rheumatoid arthritis. RF was 61 and anti-CCP was 60. Having a medical background (surgical nurse) and teacher, I immediately did what comes most naturally, research!!!!! Not thrilled with the info I pulled up. Doesn't sound like much fun. S.O.S. to anyone that may can shed some light on my situation. Thanx bunches.

[mozart]

I feel really sad upon reading all your experiences. I am new to this forum and it seems that I feel the way that you feel. Actually, I don't have RA. I just want to know how the people, who were diagnosed with this sickness, deal with it. This would be helpful for my father. Is it possible for a teenager to have a RA?