After being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, it’s important to find ways to manage the inevitable pain you will experience, and to learn how to cope living with arthritis.

A diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis can seem devastating. But as you live with the disease and learn more about it, you’ll realize that your life doesn’t have to be controlled by your condition, and you’ll learn to make adjustments and keep going.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans. Although there is no cure for rheumatoid arthritis, there are things you can do to make living with the disease bearable.

If Rheumatoid Arthritis is not diagnosed and treated early, then over time it can cause significant damage to joints, leading to deformity and disability. Hands and wrists are the most common location for these deformities. As tendons also become inflamed, they result in rupture or ulnar drift.

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting about 2.1 million Americans. The most debilitating type of arthritis, RA causes painful, stiff joints throughout the body which may become enlarged and deformed. However, affected joints only begin to paint the picture of Rheumatoid arthritis.

RA is not necessarily genetic, as the disease itself cannot be transferred, but your genetics can make you more likely to get RA.

Sufferers of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) know that it is, indeed, a life-long disease, with chronic reoccurrences, or ‘flare-ups’ repeating over time. However, RA can be maintained and also doesn’t have to be constant.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disease. The immune system becomes confused and can no longer identify what belongs in the body and what doesn’t. In rheumatoid arthritis, the immune system begins attacking the joints.

Many people with arthritis avoid exercise, thinking it will cause more damage to their joints. The truth is that exercise can be an incredible boon to people with arthritis.

Anemia is a low red blood cell count. Since the red blood cells transport oxygen throughout the body, the effects of anemia are global.