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10 Essential Facts About Rheumatoid Arthritis No Doctor Ever Told Me

Kelly O'Neill 58 Comments , ,
Facts about Rheumatoid Arthritis I learned the hard way There are some important facts about Rheumatoid Arthritis that you figure out pretty quickly and other ones, you get eventually. If these are some RA facts of life, then why doesn’t anyone sit you down and give you “the little talk”? Why doesn’t the Rheumatoid Arthritis specialist tell...Continue reading      58 Comments » Read more

20 Questions RA Patients Should Ask a Doctor

Kelly O'Neill 18 Comments , ,
There are lots of questions RA patients can and should ask doctors… The following is a list of suggested questions to ask a doctor. The list of questions was designed to be useful with a new RA doctor, but many of them you could ask any doctor. Some of these questions are from my own “must...Continue reading      18 Comments » Read more

Patient Assertiveness

Kelly O'Neill 49 Comments , ,
Not enough patient assertiveness? If you saw the blog with the pretty Actemra brochures and the not-so-pretty bruises, you know I needed some patient assertiveness recently. My skin rarely bruises, but the coloring was not the worst thing. That elbow was stiffened and screaming for two weeks with a flare caused by the rough treatment of...Continue reading      49 Comments » Read more

Response to a Blog Written by a Rheumatoid Arthritis Doctor

Kelly O'Neill 8 Comments , ,
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...Continue reading      8 Comments » Read more

Rheumatoid Arthritis Doctors

Kelly O'Neill 17 Comments ,
What’s wrong with Rheumatoid Arthritis doctors? Yes, I do know there are a lot of great doctors. There’s “my good GP” as I always say. We have a fantastic nurse practitioner pediatrician. And a few others we know.  You better believe I was thrilled to find my good Rheumatoid Arthritis doctor finally. Are Rheumatoid Arthritis doctors different?...Continue reading      17 Comments » Read more

What About Rheumatoid Arthritis Pictures?

Kelly O'Neill 25 Comments ,
Bringing Rheumatoid Arthritis pictures to a doctor Do you think about your appointment with the rheumatologist before you go? About what you’ll ask or tell him (or her) when you see him? Over the months, I save up the concerns and the questions. This time, I also saved up my Rheumatoid Arthritis pictures. In the beginning, the...Continue reading      25 Comments » Read more

Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms Not Alleviated by Disease Treatment

Kelly O'Neill 70 Comments , , ,
Rheumatoid Arthritis patients still have symptoms of pain & disability In a press release posted this week from Rome, the European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) says women with Rheumatoid Arthritis experience Rheumatoid Arthritis symptoms despite treatment. (Link to view non-pdf version of EULAR press release.) The survey of 2,000 Rheumatoid Arthritis patients found a majority experienced...Continue reading      70 Comments » Read more
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