How To Live A Happy, Healthy, Pain-free Life With Rheumatoid Arthritis
I was never a really healthy kid. From the time I was 13 years old in 1983, I had been in and out of the hospital many times with various health problems. I knew more doctors and nurses by first name than I knew kids my own age!
Doctors diagnosed me as enemic, and put me on iron suppliments. They thought at one time that I had Rheumatic Fever. I didn’t even know what that was at 13 years old.
I started having joint inflammation off and on when I was fourteen, and this continued until I was seventeen. I had been tested for Rheumatoid Arthritis at the age of fifteen, but the test came back negative.
Finally, when I was seventeen years old, I was tested again, and the test came back positive for RA. I was immediately started on NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs).
In 1987, doctors didn’t know that they needed to be aggressive from the get-go with drug therapy in order to stop this terrible disease. As a result of that, I suffered tremendously. I would end up having 12 surgeries to replace or repair joints!
I took the NSAIDs until I was eighteen, and was finally started on gold injections. Finally, when I was twenty years old, I was started on Methotrexate and Prednisone.
It wasn’t until I was twenty-nine years old that I was started on REALLY aggressive drugs as soon as they were made available. That year, 1999, I was started on Enbrel shots. Finally, in 2003, I was started on Remicade infusions.
I am making it all sound simple, but there is was more that has happened to me in the last 20 years since I was diagnosed. I have been through alcoholism, severe depression, psychiatry, counseling, tons of dangerous medications, physical therapy, and lots more.
Just in the last year or two alone, I have learned how to live a happy, healthy, pain-free life with Rheumatoid Arthritis, and I can show you how to do the same.
David Hillhouse graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2005 in Hattiesburg with a degree in English Literature, as well as Meridian Community college in 1994 with a degree in Computer Programming. He holds a real estate license in Florida and Mississippi, and is currently in the coin laundry business. Today, he makes his home and his business in the town of his birthplace, Meridian, Mississippi. Please visit him at http://www.ArthritisFanatic.com and/or http://www.BuildYourVeryOwnComputer.com David also teaches e-classes titled “How To Build Your Very Own Personal Computer From Scratch,” and “How To Live A Happy, Healthy, Pain-Free Life With Rheumatoid Arthritis.”
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