Re: Anyone Have Any Other Things Wrong With Them?!

[Guest guest]

It's common for people with RA to also have another autoimmune

disease. I have Sjogren's syndrome, Crohn's and RA. I'm 30 years old.

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> Hi All,

>

> I wondered if others here have other diseases and conditions as

> well? I also have Ulcerative Colitis, which I have had since I

was

> about 16 and Costochondritis, which I have had since I was

> about 22. I have RA for 2 years and am 35. My UC has been

> quiet for many years but about 7 years ago I did have

> precancerous cells in my colon. Right now, my RA is doing

> pretty well through Humira but I have a bad flare-up of Costo.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Sometimes it isn't anything you can put your finger on as being related;

but I have RA, OA, had colon cancer twice (in remission) and have Osteoporosis and cea.

My fingernails look great though!

Hugs, Jacy

~May the worst of the new year be better than the best of previous years.

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 14:03

Subject: Anyone Have Any Other Things Wrong With Them?!

Hi All,I wondered if others here have other diseases and conditions as well? I also have Ulcerative Colitis, which I have had since I was about 16 and Costochondritis, which I have had since I was about 22. I have RA for 2 years and am 35. My UC has been quiet for many years but about 7 years ago I did have precancerous cells in my colon. Right now, my RA is doing pretty well through Humira but I have a bad flare-up of Costo.

[Guest guest]

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I was diagnosed with RA this year after having been diagnosed

with Hashimoto's thyroiditis 14 years ago.

My daughter was diagnosed with autoimmune Type I diabetes at

age 9. She also has autoimmune antibodies to her thyroid, so she also

is considered a Hashimoto's disease also. One of my sons has severe

ulcerative colitis and at age 18 this year had a permanent

ileostomy. Another son has asthma. Our youngest son is allergic to

rice, bananas,cottonseed oil, fish, chocolate and some other things

(as determined by skin test. Both my mother and an aunt have

Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

In reality, my daughter with diabetes who is on an insulin pump

is in her second year at college with a 4.0 for all semesters. Our

son who had the ileostomy is in his freshman year (and he is waiting

for grades) We all function and live normal lives, but contend with a

fair amount of expense and inconvenience. Eating at our house at the

holidays is probably not that much fun for other people either. LOL

We may be the " poster family for autoimmune illness " as s-

Hopkins called us, but there are lots of things our family never

gets, and somehow our kids are pleasant and well adjusted. (This

week) LOL

Best wishes,

Jane

- In Rheumatoid Arthritis , " "

<catdelouise@c...> wrote:

>

> Hi All,

>

> I wondered if others here have other diseases and conditions as

> well? I also have Ulcerative Colitis, which I have had since I was

> about 16 and Costochondritis, which I have had since I was

> about 22. I have RA for 2 years and am 35. My UC has been

> quiet for many years but about 7 years ago I did have

> precancerous cells in my colon. Right now, my RA is doing

> pretty well through Humira but I have a bad flare-up of Costo.

>

>

[Guest guest]

--- In Rheumatoid Arthritis , " " <catdelouise@c...>

wrote:

>

> Hi All,

>

> I wondered if others here have other diseases and conditions as

> well? I also have Ulcerative Colitis, which I have had since I was

> about 16 and Costochondritis, which I have had since I was

> about 22. I have RA for 2 years and am 35. My UC has been

> quiet for many years but about 7 years ago I did have

> precancerous cells in my colon. Right now, my RA is doing

> pretty well through Humira but I have a bad flare-up of Costo.

>

>

I don'thave Costochondritis, but I get intercostal spasms...muscles spasms of

the intercostal muscles that were at first diagnosed as Costochondritis. The

muscles between the ribs go into spasm and clamp down. It only hurts when you

breath or your heart beats. The rest of the time you feel fine. If this is

what Costochondritis is like, you certainly have my sympathy.

Sharon

[Guest guest]

I was diagnosed with RA in 1999.

But in 1978 I had been diagnosed with sarcoidosis. It was completley

healed after 1 pregnancy (bc of the increasing of natural cortisone

in pregnant women).

One of my sons has been diagnosed with auto immune enzymatic damages

to pancreas that CAN lead him to diabetes, someday. (He is 12, now)

Cecilia