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Amazing............

I used to love mazes. There is a logic apparently. To a maze. Something about if you keep turning left, you get to the middle? There was one in Ross on...

I used to love mazes. There is a logic apparently. To a maze. Something abou...

•13 years ago

The Winter of My Discontent

I’m mad. Like really mad. Really really angry. I’m also scared to death. Absolutely terrified. Rheumatoid arthritis was not part of my plan. I mean, is it...

I’m mad. Like really mad. Really really angry. I’m also scared to death. Absolut...

•13 years ago

I saw this and thought of you.

Found this amazing analogy last night and thought I'd share it with you:...

Found this amazing analogy last night and thought I'd share it with you:...

•13 years ago

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Meds

I have registered with www.mediguard.org.uk. It is free and you tell them what you have on prescription and they give you a low down on their uses and...

I have registered with www.mediguard.org.uk. It is free and you tell them what...

•13 years ago

Voltarol - Diclofenac Sodium?

Can anyone tell me anything about Diclofenac? As an anti-inflammatory I found it very helpful for my back problems. When I got RA I was taken off of Diclofenac...

Can anyone tell me anything about Diclofenac? As an anti-inflammatory I found it...

•13 years ago

The continuing saga of my RA journey

I wish I was blessed with the ability to remain positive but I just ain't one of those people. When the steroid injection wore off I chased the hospital up...

I wish I was blessed with the ability to remain positive but I just ain't one of...

•13 years ago

Fascinating, but highly illogical

I have a crazy hobby, one that attracts thousands of geeks, freaks and weirdos as well as some genuine psychiatric cases. It's a hobby which has given birth...

I have a crazy hobby, one that attracts thousands of geeks, freaks and weirdos a...

•13 years ago

Feet ... restricted offer!

Only one pair per person! Yes, that’s right, just the one pair to last until you are pushing up the daisies! Surgeons can replace wrists, elbows, shoulders,...

Only one pair per person! Yes, that’s right, just the one pair to last until yo...

•13 years ago

RAin, RAin, go away…

Living in the Lakes I know all about rain. It does it A LOT. We have every type of rain there is on a regular and pretty unrelenting basis. I practically live...

Living in the Lakes I know all about rain. It does it A LOT. We have every type ...

•13 years ago

Open mouth, insert boot

If there's one thing in life I excel at it's saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person. Now, I don't even make excuses or apologise, I just...

If there's one thing in life I excel at it's saying the wrong thing at the wrong...

•13 years ago

Many a true word..............

I was exchanging facebook messages with an ex colleague and fellow RA sufferer. I told her how pleased I was to be told I was to be prescribed antiTFN...

I was exchanging facebook messages with an ex colleague and fellow RA sufferer. ...

•13 years ago

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Is it just the patients that suffer?

Being told you have RA is miserable. It's a shock, a life sentence, an awful lot to come to terms with. It is understandably easy to feel very sorry for...

Being told you have RA is miserable. It's a shock, a life sentence, an awful lot...

•13 years ago

New kid on the Block

Hi fellow bloggers, here goes.......my very first blog...exciting innit!! I was a little daunted when I read through the blogs on site, wow the standard of...

Hi fellow bloggers, here goes.......my very first blog...exciting innit!! I was...

•13 years ago

Time flies...!

Hello All, Emma Nelson here again from Membership with my second ever blog for NRAS! I can’t believe I have been here for almost six months now; it has gone...

Hello All, Emma Nelson here again from Membership with my second ever blog for ...

•13 years ago

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Fatigue - Pace yourself m'dear!

One of the key symptoms of RA is the chronic fatigue we feel. It can go on day after day without letting up. Fatigue is subjective and therefore impossible to...

One of the key symptoms of RA is the chronic fatigue we feel. It can go on day a...

•13 years ago

Belfast: its part in my downfall

I love a Belfast Fry - or I did until I went back to being a vegetarian. Somehow, a plate of eggs, beans and hash browns with a dried-up soya sausage and a...

I love a Belfast Fry - or I did until I went back to being a vegetarian. Someho...

•13 years ago

Just before I go back out in the cold and wet

Today has been ****. We had a cattle inspection this morning which David did with the lady from DEFRA and had to go through all cattle movement records,...

Today has been ****. We had a cattle inspection this morning which David did wit...

•13 years ago

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Methotrexate

Just a quickie... big helpful tip for me which works... and that is to take the MX at night before you go to bed. First couple of weeks I took it in the...

Just a quickie... big helpful tip for me which works... and that is to take the ...

•13 years ago

Morning Stiffness!

I always wanted to be a writer, I have always had an active imagination, wild ideas, a good turn of phrase and a great sense of romance, well ok then Jilly...

I always wanted to be a writer, I have always had an active imagination, wild id...

•13 years ago

My First Blog

Hello... Blank.... try again..... helloooo that's better. Talking of being better, today is the best I have felt in along time. Apart from a few niggles...

Hello... Blank.... try again..... helloooo that's better. Talking of being bet...

•13 years ago

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