I tucked my rinvoq away today so I would remember not to take it for a week before surgery, which means that in a week I will have my fifth surgery in four years, and I'm kind of over it. But barring emergency, this is the last one until next year.
#criplife #rheumatoid #rearticulation

20 years ago, #Enbrel was a relatively new medication on the #rheumatoid disease front. My #insurance company would only cover half the cost of home injectables aside from insulin. I could not afford a $500/month #copay so I kept trying medications that wouldn't work.

Around that time a friend of mine with rheumatoid disease said that they were rolling out Enbrel very slowly in Canada and it was hard to get, and it was better for people who lived in the US where it wasn't rationed.

Oh, it was rationed.
#hc4a #healthJustice
https://mastodon.energy/@AndrewHenry/110956412737762963

@coreyf I spent 18 months with six of the seven criteria that were required in 2001 for a diagnosis of #rheumatoid disease. Finally, the 7th arrived. Fortunately, my doctor had been treating me as if I had rheumatoid disease from the beginning.

#ChronicHealth life:
Box just arrived with #knuckle splint for long term as-needed joint protection after knuckle replacement required by 20 years of medication-resistant #rheumatoid disease.
*probiotic #gummies to help control long-term IBS and current effect of cephalexin because of a (fortunately rare) UTI.
*fiber gummies for IBS.

I think I'll roll my #powerchair (which I use because of rheumatoid disease and chronic ankle problems after fracture caused because of #osteoporosis after #prednisone needed during RA flares) down to the city arts #festival today and have a #beer and buy some #art.
#rheumatoidArthritis #mobility #livingTheDream

Researchers found both compositional & functional gut #microbiome differences in people with various types of arthritis and I like their caution in concluding these are probably a RESPONSE to system-wide inflammation, rather than the cause of it.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abn4722

#rheumatoid #ankylosing #psoriatic #arthritis

For all y'all wondering how my #surgery recovery is doing, one #prosthesis popped out soon after surgery and I get to spend the next few weeks deciding how soon or whether to get it put back. Otherwise, I'm doing about as well as can be expected given the damage leading up to this.
#arthroplasty #rheumatoid #mcp #fakeknuckles

The community clinic rheumie decided I should wean gradually off prednisone, which I totally agree with in theory. But my pain levels have been going up steadily and today my hands were unusable. I don't know what he thought would happen, but I need to be dealing with firewood for winter, and making stuff for the craft sale, and picking up my phone and forks, things like that. Function. Not just sit and ache. #rheumatoid #chronicillness #chronicpain

https://arthritistreatment.one/natural-remedies-for-arthritis/ Stop taking dangerous pharma (particularly covid-19 related vaccines as they are causing autoimmune issues like rheumatoid arthritis.) They never heal or cure your arthritis only cause more joint destruction and a compromised immune system. Natural Arthritis Remedies stop your arthritis and joint pain without harmful side effects. It can also help you reverse your arthritis by healing the joint tissue damage and creating a smooth arthritis free joint. Restores range of motion without pain. Not just a Band-Aid but true healing from mother nature! #arthritis #rheumatoid #covid -19 #inflammation #health

https://arthritistreatment.one/arthritis-in-the-knee/ You don’t have to suffer with knee pain, there is something that really works to reverse knee arthritis pain and the cause for good. Knee arthritis and inflammation is the most common place arthritis builds up in your joints. It can affect your life, mobility and cause a great deal of pain and discomfort if not treated. The holistic natural treatment for knee arthritis cleans up the damage, treats infections if you have them, and restore joint cartilage and joint fuel for pain free mobility. #arthritis #kneepain #osteoarthritis #rheumatoid #knee

Life-changing #vaccine provides long-lasting protection against #rheumatoid #arthritis

https://flip.it/qjYHMb

Risk of developing #rheumatoid #arthritis doubled by #polycyclic #aromatic #hydrocarbons exposure
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/risk-of-developing-rheumatoid-arthritis-doubled-by-polycyclic-aromatic-hydrocarbons-exposure/4017450.article

Weirdest rheumatoid disease symptom - foot cramps if I put weight on them in an odd position, or hold them funny to clip toenails. Super hard to get them to stop cramping once they start. #rheumatoid #autoimmune

I'm having a #rheumatoid #arthrits flare up tonight and feeling old.

Pain sucks.
Every joint in my hands is on fire. (Ive taken my meds, wearing my compression gloves, going to bed)

Take of yourselves, my siblings.
Drink water. Stretch. Move.

#transgender #trans

https://arthritistreatment.one/arthritis-in-the-knee/ You don’t have to suffer with knee pain, there is something that really works to reverse knee arthritis pain and the cause for good. Knee arthritis and inflammation is the most common place arthritis builds up in your joints. It can affect your life, mobility and cause a great deal of pain and discomfort if not treated. The holistic natural treatment for knee arthritis cleans up the damage, treats infections if you have them, and restore joint cartilage and joint fuel for pain free mobility. #arthritis #kneepain #osteoarthritis #rheumatoid #knee

I found out I have rheumatoid arthritis. I know the mainline treatment is biologics but they'll destroy my relatively strong immune system. I don't even know right now what other options are available. #rheumatoid #rheumatoidarthritis

https://arthritistreatment.one/natural-remedies-for-arthritis/ Stop taking dangerous pharma (particularly covid-19 related vaccines as they are causing autoimmune issues like rheumatoid arthritis.) They never heal or cure your arthritis only cause more joint destruction and a compromised immune system. Natural Arthritis Remedies stop your arthritis and joint pain without harmful side effects. It can also help you reverse your arthritis by healing the joint tissue damage and creating a smooth arthritis free joint. Restores range of motion without pain. Not just a Band-Aid but true healing from mother nature! #arthritis #rheumatoid #covid -19 #inflammation #health

https://arthritistreatment.one/natural-remedies-for-arthritis/ Stop taking dangerous pharma (particularly covid-19 related vaccines as they are causing autoimmune issues like rheumatoid arthritis.) They never heal or cure your arthritis only cause more joint destruction and a compromised immune system. Natural Arthritis Remedies stop your arthritis and joint pain without harmful side effects. It can also help you reverse your arthritis by healing the joint tissue damage and creating a smooth arthritis free joint. Restores range of motion without pain. Not just a Band-Aid but true healing from mother nature! #arthritis #rheumatoid #covid -19 #inflammation #health

I haven't found my #disability community here yet. I'm kind of pondering using different accounts in different places to compartmentalize my life a little, but that often feels wrong to me.

"Changing standards and financial instability are making disabled users of Twitter anxious they may lose a valuable tool for connection and advocacy."

https://www.inquirer.com/health/twitter-elon-musk-disability-social-media-20221206.html

#rheumatoid
#disabled
#queer
#geography
#science
#rheumatoidarthritis
#neisvoid
#chronicillness
#spoonie

My rheumatoid-flare joints are gonna hate me tomorrow and my sinuses are a mess but I'm just thinking of the time in otherwise horrible 1977 the bookmobile had the #YellowBrickRoad songbook (piano, lyrics, guitar chords) and I tried to memorize it all in 2 weeks before the due date.

#EltonJohn
#rheumatoid
#GoodbyeYellowBrickRoad

#twitterrefugees I am one too. Follow me please. #democraticparty #dogsofmastodon #Rheumatoid #comedy #horrormovies #sports