Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) - Introduce yourself and meet others

Posted by Kanaaz Pereira, Connect Moderator @kanaazpereira, Mar 30, 2017

Let's talk about living with rheumatoid arthritis.
As moderator of the Autoimmune Diseases group, I noticed that several people were talking about RA, but those conversations were scattered throughout the community. I thought I would start this discussion to bring us all together in one place.

Let’s grab a cup of tea, or beverage of choice, and let's chat. Why not start by introducing yourself?

Interested in more discussions like this? Go to the Autoimmune Diseases Support Group.

leigh17 | @leigh17 | Apr 21 8:08am

Thank you I think this will be helpful to several of us who or I guess you could say are on the RA spectrum . I am not testing for RA, but I have high levels of collagen type two antibodies that are found in RA. It’s attacking my cartilage, has caused excessive inflammation throughout my body so I have had five spinal fusions , two shoulder replacements. The first one failed and the second one the disease attacked the tendon and I could no longer open doors. It appears there’s a tear in the shoulder now and I have to see orthopedic in May to see what we do.. I just started treatment with Actemra infusions but it’s only been three months and we’re not seeing any improvement yet. Having bloodwork done in two months to see if the levels have come down. I’m hoping someone will post something about this as well. I did post several months ago but didn’t get any responses so thank you so much for putting this on here in this type of format.