Guest guest Posted August 21, 2000 Report Share Posted August 21, 2000 Like it or not, my RA was DEFINITELY triggered by a horribly stressful marriage. I'd only been married one year and people had asked why I'd changed personality so much. And then I developed explosive RA. I had majorly internalized my frustration because I had no other choice--I was always wrong period end of story. Then I got 80% better and went thru a hell of a horrid divorce and guess what. I had a major relapse and that was 2.5 years ago and I am still in a wheelchair from it. So stress affects us all differently, and I'd say it depends on the kind of stress. Frustration may not, but intense anger, frustration, helplessness definitely does! L << Well.....I can certainly see where internalized anger and resentment can cause (or result from?) stress and possibly an assortment of health problems. Why the author thinks RA is specifically related to this particular relationship pattern is beyond me. Following this line of reasoning, for example, anyone who has children would then be at risk for RA (they're dependant, make emotional demands, restrict your movements, and you just have to deal with it - can't dump your frustrations on THEM!). I've known of people who, given the responsibility of caring for a sick or emotionally dependant loved one, get sick themselves ( whether from exhaustion or a subconcious desire to be taken care of themselves, for once). I just can't make the leap to that being the " cause " of RA. I believe in a wholistic approach to illness, and emotional conditions should absolutely be taken into account. But there an element of fault-finding in this approach that I find a little disturbing, kind of like telling a depressed person to just get happy. >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2003 Report Share Posted April 21, 2003 Hi everyone, I have Reactive Arthritis, a rare type of arthritis that is triggered by an infection and typically affects only one side of the body. Before all my arthritis symptoms started, I had pink eye -- 1 of the 6 types of infection that triggers Reactive Arthritis. (yeah) Take care, in VA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On another board there was a poll to see what caused RA for the people. About 70 responded, with about half attributing RA to a physical stress like surgery, illness, vaccination, or flu shot and the other half attributing it to an emotional stress. A very few didn't identify any cause. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: neiceetn > to all that responded. I did speak to my rheumatologist today and he > plans on slowly increasing me to six per week. Today I have added > one more for a total of four per week now. I am curious, did anyone > get ra after or from the results of surgery? Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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