Blog Articles by Month: March 2010

Death & Life

This month on MyRACentral, we talk about death and dying, the unmentionable: “Twice, rheumatoid arthritis has tried to kill me. I was 12, almost 13, the first time, when it went systemic and starting attacking my heart and my spleen and there was a bad case of pneumonia, as well. I don’t remember much, just…

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Rockingchair in Sunshine

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Validity, Perception & Pain

A little while ago, Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior posted a fantastic rant about the “well-established fact” that people who have RA have lower pain thresholds and that “they worsen the perception of a pain through their ‘maladaptive responses’ to their pain. Apparently, the medical literature has very decided opinions about the way other people experience pain….

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