For many people, holiday plans include some kind of travel. In addition to the ordinary stress and chaos of travel, many of us with rheumatoid arthritis also need to figure out how to travel with ...

Living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) means adjusting... literally everything. Over the years, I’ve found some of the parts of getting dressed that once were easy (clasps, hooks, zippers) have gotten ...

Arthritis is a health condition where you experience stiffness, inflammation, and discomfort in 1 or more joints. 1 The condition affects people of different age groups, including children and ...

I have lived in the midwest my whole life, growing up in Illinois and attending college in Iowa. I am used to the saying, "If you don’t like the weather, wait an hour and it’ll change" — which is ...

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), now called juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), impacts an estimated 300,000 children in the U.S. (about 1 in every 1,000). 1 While a challenging diagnosis, newer ...

I’ve spent my whole life with joint pain, swelling, and stiffness. In my younger years, it was chalked up to growing pains or injuries from being athletic. It wasn’t until I was 30 years old and ...

Leveling up. It’s for video games, sure, but for those of us who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, we do it every single day. "What could you possibly mean by that?" I hear you ask, and I’m here to ...

When you explore Dr. Google for general information about rheumatoid arthritis, you will often see references to the term "flare." Many general information websites discuss flares as if patients with ...

It's that time again: I've developed yet another pain and complication because of my RA. For those of you who have rheumatoid arthritis (RA), you know this feeling of dread all too well; as many ...

Those of us who have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) tend to be quite familiar with the standard laundry list of symptoms associated with this condition, like pain, joint swelling, and fatigue. Living with ...

As a newbie to the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) community (although not a newbie to the chronic illness community), I truly had no idea about the treatment options when it came to RA. I was a little late ...

Side effects from medications can sometimes be just as uncomfortable and miserable as the condition for which a person is taking them. It's one of the challenging Catch-22 situations of living with a ...