This is called metabolic syndrome and involves a set of interconnected risk factors which are related to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. In a study published in 2013, it was found that 18 to 49 ...

Has anyone ever said to you, “Well, if you have to have Rheumatoid Arthritis, now is the best time to have it”? If you have heard this while experiencing a flare or shortly after your diagnosis, you ...

If you are a college student with rheumatoid arthritis, the following article is addressed towards meeting your needs in the classroom through academic accommodations under section 504 of the ...

On the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Foundation website, Ailsa Bosworth wrote: “Something like 90 percent of people with rheumatoid arthritis experience pain and problems with their feet and footwear ...

Learn about rheumatoid arthritis from a community of advocates who share their experiences, from diagnosis and treatment to caregiving and mental health.

Experiencing RA fatigue. Why does RA fatigue happen? Believe it or not, many factors play a role in RA fatigue aside from increased RA disease activity. Other factors include depression, anemia, ...

Methotrexate treatment history. I have only been seeing this rheumatologist for about a year, so he asked me about my history with methotrexate.I told him that I took it for a year or 2 shortly after ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term (chronic) autoimmune disease. Autoimmune means that your immune system begins to attack and damage healthy cells. Damage from RA can continue over time and ...

After a physical exam, my rheumatologist said that I probably had some sort of infection caused by the immune-suppressing medications used to treat RA. This made sense at the time since the lymph ...

Hardly a day goes by on the rheumatoid arthritis Facebook site that a person doesn’t mention their persistent battle with fatigue. It’s one of the most frustrating symptoms of RA and there’s no ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) symptoms can vary from person to person and can even change from day to day. In people with RA, the body’s immune system attacks the healthy tissues inside the joints.This ...

Pillow shapes. The ordinary rectangular pillows comes in standard, super standard, queen, king sizes.; Travel pillows are small, portable rectangles or “horseshoes” you tuck around your neck during ...