Re: Life before, and after RA,.....

[Guest guest]

((((((((Tawny)))))))))) Your story could be mine with the key players changed.

We are all in this together-I know the subject of antidepressants can cause

quite a lot of discussion. In my own family I have people who think I can

just wish my way out of pain and depression and don't understand why I am not

" just doing it " If if weren't for antidepressant's, I don't know what I would

do.

Tawny <tawnyokc@...> wrote:

Before I had RA, and lupus, and all the other ugly ailments, I was

such a healthy woman, so full of energy, not bragging but I could

turn heads,lol I had such long thick hair, I was so proud of it. I

was in law inforcement, and loved my job. I was the back bone of my

family, no problem I couldn't handle. I always had problems with

pain in my back, and joints but didn't think much of it. My doctor

would put me on anti-flammatory meds, and tell me it was just

arthritis, at that time he never told me what kind, he never even

checked. I just thought because of a previous back injury, that was

the culprit of my pain.

Then in 2001 my life did a crash and burn. I couldn't hardly go, all

my hair started falling out, I felt so fatiqued all the time, I quit

my job, I couldn't do it anymore. I went to a doctor, and she

started doing all these tests. She diagnosed me with Lupus, but

wanted me to go to a rheumatologist, that took 3 more months. I was

then told that I had RA, lupus, and OP, I was devestated. I cried,

stayed in bed, and asked, " why me. " I have excepted it now, but it's

hard everyday of my life. I am not the same person, and will never

be. I am not the fun loving gal anymore. It has just completly

changed my life, the pain that I have went through the last few

years, never ending gets to be rough. It's hard on my family life,

and I have a lot of stress in that area, so it doesn't help. I have

been on so many meds since being diagnosed, and not much luck with

them, but I have to keep my head up, and keep going. If I can get

relief from meds, I will take them, this struggle is hard anyway,and

if something can ease it, I will do it. As for anti-depressants,

that is something I need in my life. It might not be for everybody,

but it is a light for me. I feel so close to everyone here, and I

just wanted to share my feelings, and how the Ra has effected me. I

sometimes think, where is this going to lead me in the future, but no

one knows, we just have to do the best we can, whatever it may be.

[Guest guest]

There are so many that feel the same way we do, I don't see anything

wrong with needing help. I have always been a depressed person even

before finding out about my medical problems.

I have had a very hard life, but still hanging on, and doing the best

I can. Yes, we are in this all together, were all fighters to win.

You take care of yourself, and know your in my thoughts.

((((((((hugs))))))))

> Before I had RA, and lupus, and all the other ugly ailments, I was

> such a healthy woman, so full of energy, not bragging but I could

> turn heads,lol I had such long thick hair, I was so proud of it.

I

> was in law inforcement, and loved my job. I was the back bone of

my

> family, no problem I couldn't handle. I always had problems with

> pain in my back, and joints but didn't think much of it. My doctor

> would put me on anti-flammatory meds, and tell me it was just

> arthritis, at that time he never told me what kind, he never even

> checked. I just thought because of a previous back injury, that

was

> the culprit of my pain.

> Then in 2001 my life did a crash and burn. I couldn't hardly go,

all

> my hair started falling out, I felt so fatiqued all the time, I

quit

> my job, I couldn't do it anymore. I went to a doctor, and she

> started doing all these tests. She diagnosed me with Lupus, but

> wanted me to go to a rheumatologist, that took 3 more months. I

was

> then told that I had RA, lupus, and OP, I was devestated. I cried,

> stayed in bed, and asked, " why me. " I have excepted it now, but

it's

> hard everyday of my life. I am not the same person, and will never

> be. I am not the fun loving gal anymore. It has just completly

> changed my life, the pain that I have went through the last few

> years, never ending gets to be rough. It's hard on my family life,

> and I have a lot of stress in that area, so it doesn't help. I

have

> been on so many meds since being diagnosed, and not much luck with

> them, but I have to keep my head up, and keep going. If I can get

> relief from meds, I will take them, this struggle is hard

anyway,and

> if something can ease it, I will do it. As for anti-depressants,

> that is something I need in my life. It might not be for

everybody,

> but it is a light for me. I feel so close to everyone here, and I

> just wanted to share my feelings, and how the Ra has effected me.

I

> sometimes think, where is this going to lead me in the future, but

no

> one knows, we just have to do the best we can, whatever it may

be.

>

>

>

>

>