Marching to get funding

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When you raise the question of funding, consider this:If you group all the AUTOIMMUNE diseases as one entity, they far exceed most of the "biggies" As individual diseases, you have lupus, Chrohns, RA, spondy,fibro, etc. etc and then consider all the other organ autoimmune diseases, some diabetes, kidney diseases, thyroid diseases, eye diseases, etc. As individual diseases, we are small potatotes. As a single entity, we deserve much more of the research pie. Then consider how varied our responses are to the available medicines: huge spectrum.As has been pointed out, many, perhaps even most people get good relief for their RA and its siblings on routine medicines. And then there are the 10-40% who don't get relief, or get such awful side effects, that they spend a lot of time (and money) trying to

find the cocktail of meds that helps them. This includes pain medications, disease modifying agents,biologicals, antidepressants, GI support for all the other meds, etc. etc.And that group, brothers and sisters, is usually us!Hence, we need to continue to help one another get up each morning, find what makes us feel best and keep on trying to find how to best care for ourselves.