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OK People - I am Freaking Out with Worry- Need Some Reassurance, Prayers
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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 384605" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>Be aware that you can have RA without rheumatoid factor in your blood. I was diagnosed with RA at 19, though I am sure I had since 17. Since I was over 18, they called it RA and not JRA. I am now in my early 50's and have never had the factor in my blood, though I very clearly have RA. It can be managed. At the beginning, I was in very active disease but ultimately over the past 30 years have had somewhere between 8 and 10 serious flares where I had to be under treatment for a period of time. The last flare was 4 or 5 years ago and lasted about 6 months. I don't take medications when I'm not in active disease. I was told at 19 that I'd be in a wheelchair by 25 - I'm not. I do have problems but many of them are more due to the fact that I have become a fat pig in the past 5 years than to the RA.</p><p></p><p>If I had the choice, I'd pick RA over cancer any day.</p><p></p><p>Good luck, I hope it's just an idiopathic swollen knee from something he doesn't even know happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 384605, member: 3493"] Be aware that you can have RA without rheumatoid factor in your blood. I was diagnosed with RA at 19, though I am sure I had since 17. Since I was over 18, they called it RA and not JRA. I am now in my early 50's and have never had the factor in my blood, though I very clearly have RA. It can be managed. At the beginning, I was in very active disease but ultimately over the past 30 years have had somewhere between 8 and 10 serious flares where I had to be under treatment for a period of time. The last flare was 4 or 5 years ago and lasted about 6 months. I don't take medications when I'm not in active disease. I was told at 19 that I'd be in a wheelchair by 25 - I'm not. I do have problems but many of them are more due to the fact that I have become a fat pig in the past 5 years than to the RA. If I had the choice, I'd pick RA over cancer any day. Good luck, I hope it's just an idiopathic swollen knee from something he doesn't even know happened. [/QUOTE]
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