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Was just diagnosed with RA
I’m 63 & just told I have RA, I was misdiagnosed 20 years ago. I was told it was osteoarthritis and nothing could be done. For the last 5 years my hands have been in so much more pain & my pain dr I see for my spine pain, sent me to a Rheumatologist who did a lot of blood tests and said I had RA. So all these years I could have been treated & maybe not in the shape I’m in now. It’s really upsetting when Drs don’t listen to you and think they know what is wrong with you, without doing the proper test to rule other things out. My hands feel like they’re on fire and hurt so bad my fingers have been turning for years now. My depression and anxiety has gotten so much worse. We have to start standing up for ourselves with these Drs that are misdiagnosing us.
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@kellye1962 it can do , the best thing is to have annual eye tests
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Sorry about the RA. No fun at all. My wife has had RA for many years along with osteoarthritis and Dupuytren, which has greatly affected her hands, like you. She has found that a 300 mg thc/cbt hand cream has helped her. She gets hers from Planet 13 but many pot stores have creams, mostly less than 300. New York city has a pot store with 1,000 mg cream.
My wife has had it long enough to have it impact her liver and heart so please talk to your doctor about watching blood tests related to your organs as RA can attack them.