I have Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and wanna no if the are any foundations

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Category: Life
well to start of i try my best to love the live god gave me:) i have the total of 5 diseases JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, ACUTE DERMATOMYOSITIS , MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE OVERLAP SYNDROME AND POSSIBLE LUPUS
it’s very hard right now i think i was getting better turn out i wasnt anymore:( i take Kimo every Friday and a filture every Saterday 11tablits of Kimo one Saterday.. and like iron and more..
i wish this wasn’t my path to walk anything but this. my little sister is my everything cause she helped me everyday one i couldn’t bend down to put my socks and shoes one:) or to put my hair up and my pants. i don’t want grow up being cripled:( i don’t want to have trouble because of this i have became so angry so if im ever a bitch to you im sorry maybe now you know why:) i don’t attend to be mean, it comes up like word vomit. i have anger issues and my emotions arnt stable.
and well ya im very unhappy and i try to be happy when im hanging out laughin inside i feel like shit. i want out! i wanna crawl in a ball and cry cause it hurts so much. i could fight but say i did and i broke my bone thats it.. itll be like that for a long time cause my immune system is so weak. when im sick im sick for weeks cause im weak in side to fight. i cant get cut or bruised cause it’s hard to heal…:(
well maybe you now understand my smart mouth or if im ever mean to you which i doubt cause im too nice:)<3
I DONT HAVE CANCER, I TAKE KIMO CUZ IT HELPS ARTHRITIS. && THE OTHERS

I’m 16 years old,Female.

On the day May 30, 2009 I had extreme pain in my left shoulder. I did nothing physical that day.
It was just all of a sudden. That night, any small movement i would make with my shoulder would
hurt so bad, I would scream. My shoulder was not red but it was a bit swollen. The next day the pain
wasn’t as excruciating as the night before. The pain in my shoulder lasted 3 days, it gradually went
away.

A week or so after that I woke up with stiff a very stiff body, I was stiff until an hour or two.
My hands were in pain, my knuckles were swollen,red, and tender to the touch.
Weeks after that, my feet were in pain, particularly in my heel and the knuckles of my toes.
( the pain in my heels ever since that day has never stopped hurting. In fact, its been harder to
take walks. I can no longer jump. If i try to walk in a straight line I don’t have any balance.)

All of these pains slowly are taking over me. Its difficult to do my daily activities.
Like walking,tying my hair,getting up, etc. Just your day-to-day doings.

that’s the Just of it.

Oh and this issue has been going on for 7 to 8 months now.
And when i went to the ER the doctor diagnosed me as arthritis but she said shes not too sure.
she came to that conclusion due to something in my blood (i dint know the details)

Now, I’ve researched for quite some time now and I’ve come to the conclusion that
I have Poly-articular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

Though rheumatoid arthritis seems incredibly similar to lupus…

Is it lupus or arthritis?…
Or what do you think I have?…

P.S. My face gets rashes,irritated,dry patches but as soon as I cleanse my face, it goes back
to normal.

My daughter has been complaining that her knees hurt for the past week. She fell and had a pretty bad scratch on her knee. This was about 3 weeks ago and it is completely healed but I thought when she said "knee hurt", it may have been past tense and a recollection upon seeing the scar.

I am thoroughly convinced now that her knees are really hurting. I will kiss the scarred knee and she’ll say other knee hurt. She’s complaining constantly, but it’s not the type of pain that requires going to an emergency room. We have an appointment to see her doctor on Tuesday.

This is my REAL fear. I have chosen NOT to vaccinate my daughter. On July 8th she scratched her cornea and we ended up in an emergency room. I was convinced she needed a tetanus vaccine by both the er doctors and her doctor. She had no immediate reaction to the vaccine. But when I Googled "Toddler complains of knee pain" one of the links connected the Tetanus vaccine to Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. I am freaking out. I have also read the Web MD page explaining how to differentiate between JRA and growing pains.. and have ruled out growing pains.

WTF? Any ideas?

I will be 18 on the 22nd of this month and I have been experiencing joint pain in my hands and wrist. I don’t get it all the time but it comes every few weeks/months. Many have said its because I’m still growning but I’m not sure I believe that. I don’t play any sports so it couldn’t be because if that. Do I have Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis? I am very fit (5’4, 105lbs) and work out every day. So could it still be growing pains?

I got into a bicycle accident yesterday. Landed on my chin. I got 7 stitches to close my chin up, and I have a small jaw fracture. I saw the dentist today, who referred me to an oral surgeon. I didn’t lose any teeth in the accident, however, 2 of them were cracked, and there are horizontal fractures on both. The dentist thinks she’ll have to pull them both. I’m 23, so there’s no way I’m ready to go through life missing teeth, so implants are an option. How safe are they? Infection wise? Does anybody have tooth implants? Or do any dental professionals know any research on it? My mom thinks my history of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis could cause a relapse with something foreign in my body.

Okay, so my left shoulder has been bothering me for about a week. It hurts to raise it higher than my chest and like the back of my shoulder hurts and my upper arm too. I’m also a competitive swimmer, and whenever I swim backstroke or breaststroke, it cracks/pops and it is painful. Should I see a doctor? I don’t think it may be lack of calcium either, because that is what my friend had.
By the way, I might have Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, does that affect it in any way? Thanks in advance

I will be 18 on the 22nd of this month and I have been experiencing joint pain in my hands and lower arms. Many have said its because I’m still growning but I’m not sure I believe that. I don’t play any sports so it couldn’t be because if that. Do I have Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Oh Sorry! I said lower arm. What I ment was wrist.

My 8yr old daughter developed a strange rash. They appeared as circular rashes that were open inside and all interconnected like a behive. She also had striped rashes that were raised and red as if someone had scratched her. She has been having extreme severe joint pain. To the point at times she cannot move. The doctors said it is Erythema multiforme or a virus. This has been going on for over a week. Is there some other diagnosis for this. Could this be possible juvenile rheumatoid arthritis? She worsens at night and has also been having a low grade fever. The rash also comes and goes.

My partner and I signed a lease on our current apartment at the end of last year and it will not run up for a few more months. However, we are trying to relocate and I will tell you why:

Our current building is beautiful and we love it but it is a tower that was built over fifty years ago and was remodeled just last year. The energy bills on our apartment have been anywhere from to 0 in our 560 square foot apartment. And, a few months after we moved into the building, they filled all of their units and shortly thereafter fired their entire cleaning crew that was already having trouble keeping up with the messes caused by the hundreds of residents and the leasing office just shrugs and tells us that it is the responsibility of the tenants to maintain the grounds now. They also refuse to do anything about our outrageous electric bill which was supposed to be no more than , they said when we signed our lease. Obviously this is not a valid reason to leave and they would not allow us to break the lease without 00 in fees.

But now we think that we have a legitimate argument for breaking our lease and I want to see what you have to say! My partner was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with ankylosing spondylitis almost ten years ago and, during the winter months especially, he often has trouble climbing stairs. Our building has not one handicapped entrance or ramp (somehow they found a way out of having to make your building handicapped accessible when you remodel a building). To reach every single entrance to the building, you have to climb a flight of stairs. If we acquired a doctor’s note stating that my partner’s condition has worsened and that he is not recommended to climb stairs on a regular basis as it may cause unreasonable pain and damage, would the apartment building be legally obligated to allow us to break our lease? As far as we can tell, it seems that the apartment building would have to let us go without charge… But it also seems like it is too great of an idea to end up working… something always seems to not work out like we plan. Any comments or suggestions here?
EDIT: I would like to state that not one other tenant has had a bill over in the building, and even the leasing office has told us that it is impossible to receive a bill as high as we have, but they refuse to do anything about it. It is not magically our fault that our apartment sucks up more engery than everyone else’s.

Also, the building has no right to refuse housing to a person due to their disability, so what would it matter if my partner has had the disease for so many years. It is a degenerative disease that slowly eats away at your bones, which can flare up and can also seem to virtually disappear at times. He has gone through periods of hardly being able to walk since I have known him.

The ADA states that a landlord must make reasonable accomodations for people with any sort of debilitating disease or state. If our building would like to build a ramp (which they are legally obligated to have, anyway) instead of releasing from our lease, they may choose to do so.