Has anyone ever said to you, “Well, if you have to have Rheumatoid Arthritis, now is the best time to have it”? If you have heard this while experiencing a flare or shortly after your diagnosis, you ...

Living and working with rheumatoid arthritis can be a real challenge. Workplace accomodations, the law, and RA. Luckily, the Americans with Disabilities Act (or ADA for short) requires most employers ...

Methotrexate treatment history. I have only been seeing this rheumatologist for about a year, so he asked me about my history with methotrexate.I told him that I took it for a year or 2 shortly after ...

After a physical exam, my rheumatologist said that I probably had some sort of infection caused by the immune-suppressing medications used to treat RA. This made sense at the time since the lymph ...

Imaging tests. Imaging tests will help your doctor check for joint damage and how severe that damage is. These tests include: 1,2 X-ray; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Ultrasound; MRI and ultrasound ...

Beyond that, the fact is that once we get our joints moving and past that horrible morning stiffness phase, we can move around however tentatively for some time. Now, this is all thrown out the window ...

On the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Foundation website, Ailsa Bosworth wrote: “Something like 90 percent of people with rheumatoid arthritis experience pain and problems with their feet and footwear ...

Despite all of these negatives, it is possible to travel, both safely and enjoyable, if you have RA. The key is in the planning. Take care of as much of the hard work involved in travel as you can ...

Learn about rheumatoid arthritis from a community of advocates who share their experiences, from diagnosis and treatment to caregiving and mental health.

Experiencing RA fatigue. Why does RA fatigue happen? Believe it or not, many factors play a role in RA fatigue aside from increased RA disease activity. Other factors include depression, anemia, ...

While an office job may seem better suited for a person with rheumatoid arthritis than manual labor, the repetitive tasks and long periods of sitting involved in most office jobs can take a toll as ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term (chronic) autoimmune disease. Autoimmune means that your immune system begins to attack and damage healthy cells. Damage from RA can continue over time and ...