Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment

rheumatoid arthritis is a disease caused in part by this organelle. when it becomes leaky, it releases digestive enzymes that normally digest waste products and other materials. if released into the cell, these enzymes degrade cartlidge in joints.

I’m 22 years old and was recently diagnosed with secondary Sjogren’s syndrome with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Is anyone else out there like this? I’ve had symptoms for nearly a decade, and have not started official medication yet. I’m finding it so hard to exercise as fatigue drains every bit of energy I have. Is it normal to have excessive fatigue with RA? It’s been really hard for me to cope with this, seeing as how its so rare for someone my age, and I’m just looking for some support.

Any words of advice are greatly appreciated!

English 9
Miss Myers
Urban Legends Assignment
Victoria Evens, age 67, also known as Vicky to her family and friends went out to the drug store late one evening to get her prescription medication. She had rheumatoid arthritis in her left hand but it only came and went. After she walked inside and waited in line for about 20 minutes, she walked out of the doors only to find that three large men all wearing black were trying to steal her car!
She quickly walked to her car and pulled a pistol out of her handbag. She screamed, “I have a gun and I’m not afraid to use it!” The men had puzzled looks on their faces but ran away quickly. Vicky calmly walked into her car and was only slightly shaken. She’d taken to keeping a gun in her purse for safekeeping

I am in pain more often than anyone I know, of any age, but especially of people my age.
I’m an 18 year old female. I’m not in the best shape, but I’m not obese. I don’t think I have any vitamin deficiencies, except maybe potassium, because I get occasional charlie horses. I have had problems with my female parts (e.g. ovarian cysts, frequent periods, etc) for years. I’ve also had depression and anxiety for as long as I can remember. I don’t think it is depression pain though, because I’ve been on Cymbalta for a couple years. I am particularly sore after a day of physical activities such as shoveling snow or having sex. Mostly I chalk this up to me not being in shape, but often I notice that the pain seems to be a little too deep-seated for that; it starts to feel like my joints are creaking, like I’m some old person and that I should walk gingerly so that nothing hurts. Many times, I develop pain for no reason at all. One day I’ll just have an ache in my neck, or my calf, or my stomach. With the exception of abdominal pain (also common, probably because I don’t eat enough fiber), all the pain feels very deep. Most often it feels like it’s in a joint or a bone, less commonly in a muscle. Sometimes I get pain like growing pains used to feel: severe, coursing. But I haven’t grown in years. I also get totally random stabs of pain, most commonly in my breasts or hands. Just a quick stab, sometimes a few in succession, but then it’s gone.
The longer pains usually persist for at least a day, up to three or four. Usually I’d rate the pain at a 6. Certainly not unbearable, sometimes not even enough to make me take an aspirin, but enough to be distracting as I go about my business, and, when it persists longer, to even make me depressed, from not knowing what is wrong with me. The pain most often appears in my arms. It doesn’t feel like it would a day after lifting weights, but more how it would feel if I repeated a motion so often that it wore down my joints (apart from typing, I can’t think of anything I do that would cause this). I have a very tender spot on my upper arms; even someone pressing on it or poking it feels like they are poking a bruise, though there is never any outward signs of one. My wrists and elbows pop a lot.
I don’t smoke or do recreational drugs, I don’t drink often or a lot, I don’t even have caffeine on a regular basis.
I don’t know if I want to risk sounding crazy to a doctor. I have so many other things wrong with me, none of which should cause chronic pain, that they might think I’m becoming a hypochondriac. Only a few of my problems are really diagnosable. I’m even wondering if I’m becoming a hypochondriac. But after my mom saying a million times when I tell her about some new pain, “You’re ALWAYS in pain”, I’m beginning to think she might be right. Maybe I am in pain more than is normal. Does this sound like fibromyalgia, or rheumatoid arthritis, or something else? Will the doctors listen to me if I go to them with this problem?

I was diagnosed with arthritis in my knees when I was 13 years old … not Rheumatoid Arthritis, plain old regular osteoarthritis. I’m almost 25 now, and I feel like my left knee has about had it. For the past two weeks, my knee feels like it “buckles” … for example, when I go down the steps and put my weight on my left leg, it feels like my knee is going to give out from underneath me. And I’m really in an awful lot of pain. The saddest thing is that I’m allergic to basically everything in the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug family.
I’ve been to the ER, and they just tell me to see my family practitioner, and I can’t do that because I have no insurance and can’t afford to pay up front right now.
Has anyone else dealt with this problem? How did you handle it? And what can I do about all this chronic pain???