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Hi everyone:

My daughter, who just turned 21, has been diagnosed with RA. She is a

college student on an athletic scholarship for softball and has had

pain for over a year but it was treated as sports injuries until just

recently. She is very physically fit, not overweight and usually very

active.

She is not doing well, she is extremely fatigued, having trouble with

her classes, in a lot of pain, right now she has a lot of pain and

swelling in her hands and wrists. She wakes up very swollen and in a

lot of pain most mornings.

Of course, she does not want to give up softball, she is on the dean's

list but has gotten two " F's " this semester and is having trouble

keeping up with her activities and classes. She is on several

university task forces and very busy.

Right now she is on Relafen, she was on something else, began with

an " N " for a few weeks but that affected her vision.

And, she is away, the rheumatologist is here, hard to get her home, I

am torn between dragging her home or letting her work it out herself,

because, after all, she is 21 and doesn't need me to take care of her

any longer. The only reason I know she is not doing well is her

roommate told me.

Does anyone have any ideas that I can pass on to her to try to help her

out? I have been reading everything I can find online but I find most

of the information confusing and sometimes even contradictory.