Learn about Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), its causes, symptoms, and the best treatment options to manage joint pain, inflammation, and improve mobility.
Have you ever slept in an odd position and when you woke up, your arm felt numb and you couldn’t lift it? Well that’s what happened to me a little more than five years ago. I went to bed feeling fine and when I woke up, I couldn’t lift my arm. Except for me, the feeling didn’t go away. My first thought was it must have something to do with the surgery I had years…
It’s bad enough to have a headache or backache. But when literally everything seems to hurt, you’re truly miserable. You can have trouble getting through simple daily activities and may find it hard to get a good night’s sleep. That can make the pain even worse. The good news is that whole-body pain relief is possible. The first step is finding out what is causing your pain. There are at least 20 different issues that can cause total…
There are a number of risk factors associated with developing rheumatoid arthritis. You are more likely to develop the condition if you are a woman between the ages of 40 and 60, smoke, have a family history of rheumatoid arthritis, or are clinically obese. Of course, none of these factors guarantee a future diagnosis, but they do increase your risk of developing the condition. However, many patients with Chronicillness.co Site of the United States wonders…
With fall comes cooler temperatures, and if you suffer from arthritis, you know arthritis pain often increases in cold weather. Whether you have osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis (RA), this pain can limit your ability to enjoy any normal activities requiring movement. However, fall weather doesn’t have to keep you from doing the things you love. Here are five ways you can help manage arthritis pain in cold weather: Click Here to Visit the Store and…
Not all Rheumatologists (especially if they had been trained some years earlier and belong to the older generation) believe in Fibromyalgia. Even if they “believe”, not all are comfortable with managing patients with Fibromyalgia for diverse reasons. One very common reason (which doctors only admit to other doctors) is that Fibromyalgia patients are generally difficult (I sympathize with those patients) as they are generally mistrustful of doctors in general after all their bad experiences with…
Fibromyalgia itself is still very much a mystery. Although doctors now have more information, and many doctors now accept it as a “real” issue, we still have a LOT to learn about fibro and chronic pain conditions in general. I personally agree with doctors who believe that fibro is not a condition in and of itself, but the result of other traumas or illnesses. I was diagnosed with fibro in 2002 when I was in…
I can tell you as someone who was diagnosed with PMR and fibro, most PMR info on the internet isn’t all that accurate. PMR usually affects elderly women, but it’s not so rare for younger folks to have it. And, most who are below the age cut off aren’t even given the blood tests needed to confirm the diagnosis because doctors just think it’s impossible to have PMR at 30, 40, 50 years of age.…
Cannabis may be harmful to arthritic joints; patients with arthritis reported cannabis reducing their pain. The Arthritis Society is therefore providing the research to confirm this. The research is to develop medical cannabis therapies. This is good news for 54 million arthritis sufferers. Cannabis and Arthritis Pain Dr. Jason McDougall is a researcher from Canada. He is a pharmacology and anesthesia professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, and one of the leading pain researchers…
By: Dr Alex Robber Achy seams, creaky. A knee twins. A sharp pain shooting from the elbow’s shoulder. No big issues, okay? False. All too frequently, we suppose that fibromyalgia and joint pain is a standard component of the aging with which we must learn to live. There can be nothing further from the reality, say specialists, that points to a rich range of therapy choices from practice and alternative medicines, exercises and joint surgery.…
By: Dr Alex Robber Around 1,5 million Americans suffer from psoriatic arthritis (PsA). PsA is only component of the tale for many of those individuals. This is due to two or more chronic circumstances for patients. It may be hard to diagnose psoriatic arthritis (PsA), since symptoms such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and gout are common. In America 2016, most individuals who have PsA experience several symptoms over the period of years before the…