November 27, 2011
Medication, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Vitamin D
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What – Vitamin d deficiency and rheumatoid arthritis – isn’t this a Meniere’s disease site… Okay, so at this point you know I’ve diverged from talking about Meniere’s disease as much and now focusing on Rheumatoid arthritis. why? Well, frankly it’s been more of an issue for me the last year or so than the Meniere’s has. I have been pursuing Rheumatoligist appointments in an effort to get part of my life back just like I had been pursing allergy and ent appointments…
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November 11, 2011
Rheumatoid Arthritis
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The last two years have been particularly hard. It was October 2009 when I had a sudden onset of some sort of infection. I thought it was the swine flu and I would have continued to think so unless our oldest son hadn’t brought home what was tested and verified as swine flu which then spread to his younger brother, his mother and finally to me. So, I had something that wasn’t the swine flu early in October and lingering achiness and stiffness in the joints.
By Thanksgiving I felt like a very old man… every move was painful, standing or sitting was uncomfortable.
By December I managed to get some testing which didn’t really turn up much and then a referral to a Rheumatologist. I was throwing down tylenol and advil daily.
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