Enbel update

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               Hello all, hope all is well and pain free with you. I haven.t

posted for two half months sense I started on Enbrel. I posted 2wks after I

started, at that time I was feeling a little better but I was afraid to get my

hopes up. Our weather had changed, storms have came and gone, I can't tell where

my OA begins and my RA ends. I am not sure I even know what remission is or if I

would recognize it if I was in it. Can anyone who is in remission tell me how to

know it if or when I am in it? How many on this list have been or is in

remission? I saw my rheumy yesterday and he told me that only 20-25% ever

experience remission, is this true?  He said that in remission there is no pain

or swelling. Those of you that are in remission, do you feel pain during storms

or bad weather still? See I don't want to have my expectations too high or I

will never be satisfied.

                I have been a bit down and discouraged and I am trying hard to

snap out of it. I just don't feel like doing anything at all, I thought that

maybe if I just try and reach out maybe I can get out of this deep black hole

that I have bee in. I hate this beast RA and I hate pain, I feel like no one who

doesn't have RA understands how bad it feels, how could they?  

                                                      .....Randy....