rheumatoid arthritis?
Saturday, September 12th, 2009 at
10:17 pm
My mom went to the doctor this morning, and they suspect that she has rheumatoid arthritis. Auto-immune disease runs in our family, so its not a huge shock, but no one in our family has RA. She is 61 yrs old, and has pain in her finger and wrist joints. We are waiting to hear back on the blood test. If it is in fact RA, what kind of prognosis is there for a woman her age, with her symptoms? What kind of treatment options are there?
Tagged with: arthritis • auto immune disease • blood test • joints • mom • prognosis • ra • Rheumatoid Arthritis • shock • treatment options
Filed under: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
For newly diagnosed people there are so many new frontier meds coming out. The prognosis is subjective to how severe the case is. Good luck!
can not really be cured, but can be treated and most of the time kept in check. Treatment varies with severity.