Posts Tagged ‘Invisible Illness’
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Response to a Blog Written by a Rheumatoid Arthritis Doctor
Please read the first part of this blog: Rheumatoid Arthritis Doctors. That post discusses a story written by a young doctor who describes part of his training. If you read that post and others on the site, you know this is not an attack on good Rheumatoid Arthritis doctors. Those are the ones, like Doctor [...]
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The Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis Mystery
Mysterious flares For me, a Rheumatoid Arthritis diagnosis was a very long process. From the teen years on, sudden painful flares attacked my hands, feet, hips, and shoulders – only I had no idea they were called flares. The whole process seemed rather comical, like a scene from a Dick Van Dyke episode: healthy girl [...]
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Stages of Rheumatoid Arthritis Heartache
Warning: This post is for the faint of heart. Tired of the stages of Rheumatoid Arthritis grieving Yeah, I’m probably not supposed to say these things. Whatever… Some of these RA changes are wearing thin. I never wanted to be branded by anything negative. I’m getting tired of feeling like I’ve lost credibility because of [...]
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Dear Bridget Duffy from a Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient
Bridget Duffy at Gel Health 2009 from Gel Conference. Dear Bridget, I was truly stunned when I came across your speech. Your story produces intense reaction from a woman living with Rheumatoid Arthritis. RA is primarily an invisible illness. It can cause a person to be severely disabled quite suddenly and need help from medical [...]
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10 Dumb Questions About an MRI for Rheumatoid Arthritis
You have rheumatoid arthritis symptoms in your hand? I went for an MRI on my hand the other day – for the third time. For the two previous weeks, I showed up to discover that the MR (Magnetic Resonance) machine had broken. Of course, the third time’s a charm. I did not say charming, though. The [...]
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Mistaken beliefs about a Rheumatoid Arthritis blog?
An RA blog does not cure everything A crazy thing happened to me this weekend: Saturday had me heading out twice to my two sons’ football games. While I was home for a while in between games, I was checking emails and replying to blog comments and tweets. That makes what happened even crazier… While I [...]
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Part 4: Considering Methotrexate as a Disease Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis
But you don’t look sick: making methotrexate work in your favor Some people fear taking it because they say, “Hey, that it is chemotherapy!” which makes it sound so menacing. I read one post of a woman who actually discontinued methotrexate treatment because she realized that it is a chemo-type drug. It was working against [...]
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Hysterical Symptom Diagnosis, Part 1
The origin of the word hysterical I love etymology. Origins of words can reveal a lot. And sometimes, it can be hysterically funny – except perhaps in the case of the word “hysterical.” The word hysterical is synonymous with the words psychosomatic or neurotic. It refers to physical illness which has no identifiable physical origin. [...]
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