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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.

pb50 | @pb50 | Jun 5 12:15pm
In reply to @ferret911 "I see you got a few responses. I agree that a dedicated subgroup would be valuable;..." + (show)
@ferret911

I see you got a few responses. I agree that a dedicated subgroup would be valuable; there are too many varied responses/inputs on the Mayo site, all with different diagnoses. We need a dedicated negative RA subgroup. What are you doing to try to get Nayo to organize this? Clearly you’d need their agreement/help to organize this for us. As it is now, it’s very time consuming to screen the dozens of daily mixed inquiries. Have you tried to get Mayo to organize this? Can I help you?

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Why do we think sero negative RA differs from sero positive in a meaningful way?

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ferret911 | @ferret911 | Jun 5 5:53pm

I’m new to this world, and finding it quite difficult to understand-I was surprised to learn gout is arthritis after watching Apple+’s series Franklin:). Everything’s arthritis! I tried to research the worlds of positive and negative, but I didn’t gain an answer of my question: “So what?” Maybe someone qualified can enlighten us. It seems it might govern a different diagnosis/treatment regimen between the two? Are + and - tested differently, then treated differently? Who knows?

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