she admits things have not improved over time. She reports general body stiffness experienced in the mornings, recently lasting over an hour, and episodes of swelling in the small joints of her fingers. This has made it difficult for her to work and she is concerned as she has had to take...
Everything was awesome and I drifted into remission. Aside from my left hip deteriorating, my symptoms were few and far between. A massive flare up in 2005 rekindled my relationship with the NHS. Lots of investigation, experimenting with different combinations of drugs and 2 years later, I had...
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease (a condition that takes place when the immune system attacks the body’s healthy cells). It affects the fingers, spine, hips, knees, shoulders, elbows, wrists and ankles. The symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis are joint pain and tightness, limited join...
–It is a “moderate” type of osteoarthritis, in this almost all the symptoms it appears, where there is the obvious erosion of the cartilage surface between bones and fibrillation narrows the gap between the bones. –In this, there is a frequent pain when walking. • Stage 4 also...
My first step to resist fear was writingthe swelling confessionone year ago. I felt afraid that my symptoms were unusual and that I’d be rejected for revealing them. I gained courage because I finally had a trusted doctor who validated my symptoms and was more concerned with treating them ...