Comments on: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Joint Pain, and Truth

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:34:38 +0000

I just thought of it as an opportunity to educate. They don’t do this to cancer patients. :-/

By: Charlene

Charlene — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:57:20 +0000

Thank you for trying to educate that telemarketer who called. Obviously, she had no clue what RA really is or she wouldn’t have referred to it as severe arthritis. Surely there is a law against advertising some substance over television, the internet, etc. as a cure for an uncurable disease. Any such laws need to be enforced and whatever legally happens to the perp., the head person(s), should be well publicized. I am not as angry with the smucks who are basically pitchmen, as I am for the ones behind the snake oil scam, although they should bear some legal responsibility, too.

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:37:01 +0000

I’d have to say that this is the most frequent point people have made to me about RA in the last year.

By: MichaelPatterson

MichaelPatterson — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:01:02 +0000

I would have slapped the doctor most likely! And her doctor couldn’t be more right…it’s not “arthritis”

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:11:27 +0000

:yes: Yes to all of those, Kimberley. It is so helpful to talk with someone else who is walking the same road. “I get so charged up” too by reading comments like yours & knowing what I write matters to someone!

By: Kimberley

Kimberley — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:43:20 +0000

I tell you what you can do and what you do wonderfully is speak on our behalf!! I never realized how therapeutic sharing your pain with someone who understand could be. I get so charged up when I read something like this, on a day when I didnt care to care. I get a euphoric feeling when someone gives me encouragement and commensurates by sharing their experience,especially when it is something I thought only I had gone thru. Of course Im not that vain, its just finding a RA buddy or buddies, someone who KNOWS the disease because they are living with, getting encouragement and feedback from them is just simply different. WE KNOW that drinking glucosamine is not a cure, because we know there is no cure!! I’ll say it again – YOu tell ‘em girl!!

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:19:48 +0000

Then there are my aunts who say, oh, everyone gets arthritis at some point. They have some OA and buy into the chiropractic exercises and still sleep with magnets after all these years.

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:16:52 +0000

Hi Tazzy,
I have to agree w/ you. This is not an angry blog & I wasn’t angry on those phone calls, but there is nothing more insulting & infuriating than having someone tell you something would help or what you should do when they can not know how you feel. None of these people who do this bother to ask me anything about how I feel or what hurts. they don’t wanna know. :-/

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:10:55 +0000

good idea, Dianne. :soldier:

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:06:04 +0000

Thank you Dianne. Do the kids still say “rad” too?