Something to make life easier for all of us

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Hello, folks. Did you know that when you respond to a message, you can trim off

much of

what came before it and just respond to what you want to, and not have earlier

communiques repeated and repeated? Its true! Just highlight and delete the

earlier stuff

before you respnd to a message, and all of our emails will be faster and easier

to read.

Especially the digests! If you need more instructions on how to do this, write

to me and i'll

give you step by step ones.

ALSO I am convinced that most people are diagnosed far later than their first RA

symptoms exhibit themselves. My first sypmtom, like others of you, was a

severely

inflamed joint where my big toe attaches to the rest of my foot. It burned and

glowed and

was swollen and so painful I couldn't wear a shoe. I went to two doctors about

it who

simplistically looked at it as an isolated injury, or a bunion, and although one

GP did a RA

test, she didn't do a sed or ANA, that i know about, and she didn't realize that

someone

could have RA and not have the test numbers on RA tests to indicate it. So...it

was 4 years

and total joint damage later, that I was actually diagnosed. VERY ANNOYING!

Dana