If they keep swelling at night or whe flare ups happen and they will ice your knees some before bed. It'll help with the swelling....
My Rheumy told me many people bruise at the injection site. I bruise every now and then. It took me almost a year before I had my first bruise....
Cool thank you I'll give it a try...
I've gotten myself to be living pain free and working with my rheumy to keep lowering my medication for a little over a year now. :smilewinkgrin: But for one week out of every month I have very mild...
My rule is to think fresh when it comes to food. I'm not sure which additives, I just stay away from them all. As for the citrus; everyone's different. Oranges, limes, lemons, peaches do not bother...
Yeah Humira is an injection taken twice a week. Embral is injected once a week, and I'm not too sure on the others....
Do you have AS? I have AS and RA and I'm on Humira....
Yeah I have AS too. and my fatigue comes and goes also, but I never actually sleep that long at a time. At one point I had to take naps throughout the day just to make it to dinner at 6:30. That does...
I think the worse part the fatigue in my personal life is that my husband can't understand why I am so tired often. He doesn't stop there he sometimes get upset about it. I think more that he doesn't...
Once you start feeling better; Do some light stretches of the major muscles before bed. That helps me sleep better through the night....
Ok What has worked for me and other RA clients of mine is a major change in there diet. This isn't easy at first nor is it a quick fix. It took me a better part of a year to be completely eating...
Hello De La Rosa First what auto-immune disease do you have? What I had found is certain forms of arthritis have certain trigger foods. Oh sorry it took me so long to get back to you....
You can help the meds by changing how and what you eat. That helped me a bunch. When I was put on Humira I was feeling pretty good, but I still had flare ups and OMG if it rained I was bed ridden....
Lu- Sugar is my toughest one to beat. I love sweets, but I limit myself to only on saturday and 1 item When I started on this type of diet I just went cold turkey and followed a detoxing natural diet...
Yes but instead of looking at it as limited, think of it more like changing a habit. Like people that enjoy smoking cigarettes. When they decide to quit it's not because they enjoy smoking, but...
Yummy!! Yeah my favorite foods were steak, rice, tomatoes, and brownies!!! So Now I have new favorite foods Tilapia, quinoa, pineapple. It definitely wasn't easy at first but once I started to have...
Yes PT is very helpful for RA. Even going to a personal Trainer (who knows what they're doing) on a regular basis helps. I found that stretching when I wake up and before I go to bed helps me sleep...
I've never taken prednisone but we gain weight because of the comfort eating and then the lack of exercising do to pain. What I have found out is that the comfort foods are actually causing more pain...
lol Yeah that is what I did too before I went one to change my diet; I have pizza the day before I said goodbye to starches and dairy products. I wasn't so cranky, just exhausted and craved sugar...
Good luck lucysgd! the second week is usually the hardest when starting this diet. You will be crazing starchy foods and your energy level will be even lower than it is now, but once you pass the...
I am in the middle of writing an Arthritis Diet book which I'm hoping will be finished by the end of summer. It's based on all my research, personal experience, and my clients experiences....
Egg whites are the best for us. Say you're having scrambled eggs, I would use one full egg then two egg white. Then throughout the day or even beore bed when I get hungry I'll snack on hard boiled...
@JFG0610AS Yeah healthy people really never get the dark humor or understand why it is that we laugh so hard at it. I feel bad that you don't have enough resources in your area to have support...
If you speak with you doctor about having fliers up in their office/waiting room about support groups. Although you'll be the one coordinating it....
I too have reduced my symptoms do to diet alone. I have AS and RA and within the last year I've been able to reduce my dosage of humira twice. Which 2 years ago I couldn't even go without my humira...
Stretching is extremely good for you and it helps with stiff joints. Also helps you not lose the range of motion in the joint. Exercising is great too because it strengthens the muscles around your...
I'm in a process of writing a diet plan book for Arthritis and I'm hoping to be finished with it this summer....
Hello Lucy With AS its all starches, corn, potato, flour, rice, etc... But depending on the person's body they may be able to handle a low starch intake and still be fine. Take me for instance;...
Not saying you can't have any of these foods at all, but try to keep them to a minimum. I don't eat any thing on the list and I stay pretty much pain free. I'm a little sore if I cheat and eat...
Hello all! I'm new here also. I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis in November 2008, I was 25. Years before that I was consistently complaining about my lower back...