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Re: hi
Re: hi -- Posted by Harvey R. Stone on 04-13-04 11:22
"Kathy" wrote in message
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> Hiya,
>
> I was diagnosed about 2 years ago with R.A. and am finally learning to
> live with this horrid disease. I am constantly in pain and find that
> this is the hardest thing to cope with but one thing I have found is
> that stress contributes to pain so I try and stay cool.
>
> Does anyone else have pain when they get stressed or is it just a
> coincidence?
Hi Kathy,,,, No, it is not a coincidence. I also have RA for over 25 years
and all of those years had good times and bad times caused by stress.
Stress that I brought on myself and stress brought on by things that have
taken place in my life. I have found several things that help me with this.
The most important of these things is the medicine I take to control my RA.
If my RA is under control no matter what takes place, things go better and I
do not drop into a flare. The next most important thing is my daily
attitude in facing the things tomorrow will bring. I had to learn how not
to stress out over things that I could not and can not control. I had to
sit down and face myself and my life and the things in it by making a list
of my problems,,,, all of them. I then took that list and broke it into
two parts. Things I could do something about and things that I have no
control over. The secret to this is that a person has to take the list of
doable things and make a plan after much thought on each item and work on
those plans each day. A person can not be lazy about this kind of thinking
because that has to be faced also. :-) I hope some of this will help
you face your day.
It is not( yours or mine,,,) our fault that we have RA or inflam.arth.
What we do about it and how we live with it can be something we can learn
about and do something to help ourselves with but the most important part of
it takes place in your Rheumatologists office with our attitude that we are
going to fight what we have and live our lives as best we can because (right
now) there is no cure.
Harv
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