All posts tagged: RA biologics

October Journal

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It is tough to be stuck. It seems like it has been going on all year for me. No breakthroughs. No new ideas. It is more the need to cope with a lot of stuff.  Too much stuff for this old brain. My rheumatoid arthritis is not any better. I’ve been on most of the biologic wonder drugs. The most they can do for me is to reduce symptoms by 20%. It probably is better than nothing.  Twenty per cent is considered therapeutic by the medical profession.  I doubt any of the drug gurus have had rheumatoid arthritis. I assume they are just robots. So, there are no new practical advances in managing RA. I doubt most of us would want to have electronics placed in our brain or to have gizmos attached to our blood vessels. They need to come up with something less invasive.   I continue my journey with regular flares. When I leave the comfort of a night’s sleep and start moving for the day, I am in pain. It is …

Managing RA

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I am an optimist. But I am also a realist. When faced with a painful situation, I sometimes  dance around the issue for a few turns. Then, painful, or not, I face whatever it is,  deal with it and then do my best to move on. Stiff upper lip and all that. Each time I was diagnosed with a new cancer I did just that. I never once thought why me. I had the surgery, the chemo, the radiation. Suffered through it. Recovered for the most part and moved on. I felt that none of those three cancers would ever return as the treatments were brutal to my body and left nothing unaffected. My method of handling problems worked with cancer. Then I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis almost eight years ago. RA is a painful, debilitating and a  lifelong disease. It is a disease that must be dealt with daily. RA will not go away just because I am weary of living with it. It is forever. It is not a problem to be …