About Me: Female, 55, Hurricane , WV, member since Jul 2011
I started having isolate joint pain but severe, that would last a couple of days but move out. This pain roved around my body hitting a joint and moving out with days of reprieve in between. Then all at once, my whole body was affected. My hands were swollen and I
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[More] was unable to use them, my feet hurt to walk on them. My shoulders felt like they were broken. I couldn't pull my pants up or pull the covers over me at night. This was the beginning of 2002. Since it hit me so hard, I was put on aggressive drug therapy immediately and I have prevented a lot of joint damage so far. I have since developed fibromyalgia. Actually, prior to RA I had suffered with polychondritis since the early 80's and did not have a diagnosis until I was diagnosed with RA. Polychondritis has been controlled with the RA treatment. I also now have Raynauds's, secondary to RA.
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I saw Dr this day. I was suffering from severe burning in my lower back, left side that eventually radiated to my right lateral side and felt under my pelvic girdle. ...
For about one week my joints have become tender and painful as they were when I first got RA and the drugs were working and reducing the swelling but the there was still p...
Yesterday I started having burning from my upper spine all the way down and the area with shingles was starting to burn. I went through the day with back and neck stiffn...