I have RA also. I always have problems with stuffy dry nose. My scab is right at the entrance of the tip of my nose. I have felt some relief with coconut oil applied with a cotton swab. I have heard coconut oil has healing properties in it. My nose is a everyday problem I have had for years. I live next to a freeway that is used to export goods from the port that I live next to. That does not include the ships and refineries that polite the air that I breath. Another pro lem that irratates my nose is the blowers that the city Gardner's use.