Comments on: Baloney About Rheumatoid Arthritis

By: tammy

tammy — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:53:45 +0000

LOVE IT…..I FEEL THE EXACT SAME WAY

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:57:58 +0000

I actually think that more honesty would mean better trust. Brand loyalty isn’t like it is with dishsoap though – we can’t help it if a med does not help our RA. We can’t be brand loyal.

By: Cindy Coroa

Cindy Coroa — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:32:22 +0000

Kelly, You are SO right!!! I asked my Rheumy why they chose to show commercials with people whe clearly weren’t RA patients and why the showed these people doing things that s far as I can see most if not all RA’ers could ever do. He said most people know the drugs don’t work that well – well, excuse me, then don’t give people hope in these ads! Find out by getting educated using REAL RA patients. See how much they CAN’T do which is alot more than what they can do. I haven’t found a combo of meds that have made me feel much better and I don’t think I ever will. And, with all of the possible things you can get from taking them (cancer) or something else, is pretty scary. We are a very strong bunch, us RA’ers, we will try anything that may brng our life to even just a little bit like it was before the RA even though these drugs are like putting poison in our system. The drug companies don’t even know what could happen long term, because they haven’t been out long enough. Pretty scary, huh. They should mention this in their commercialsand print ads. Not just in the very fine print.

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:53:11 +0000

Me too, me too!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:22:47 +0000

As you know, this is my biggest pet peeve. I get even angrier about ads for Tylenol Arthritis, Motrin, etc which depict OTC’s as relieving ALL pain. This just makes my blood boil!!!

By: Lydia

Lydia — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:10:11 +0000

I’m so glad I moved to the UK where they don’t show such rubbish! I remember an ad for a biologic where the woman was writing – WRITING! – in her journal about how much pain she was in!

I think we don’t need drug ads at all.

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:20:14 +0000

JoAnn,
In my case, it was my grandfather.
I hope you and your sister are seeing good doctors. It seems we really have to look out for ourselves with this disease to make sure we are being treated adequately…

By: JoAnn

JoAnn — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:10:25 +0000

It is a really good point that we don’t need advertising for RA drugs. Why are they wasting money? Correct. Do more research or lower the cost of the drugs.
I am thankful for all the info and support online for RA. I am waiting for my
blood tests to come back from the doctor, but I am pretty sure from all my
symptoms. I think my sister has it too.

Did your mother have RA or other family member have RA?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:17:24 +0000

I am relatively new to this RA stuff but reading your blog I find myself saying, “Wow, I truly never thought about it like that!!”

So thankful that I finally decided to look around for some online support for my RA.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:36:02 +0000

Hi daina!

You are so right!
We must push for just what you said. We will stay on it. Glad to have you on the team!