Quotes About Rheumatoid arthritis

My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two.

Rheumatoid arthritis generally happens when your immune system attacks your joints, but I've had it attack my iris.

suffer from rheumatoid arthritis and find that fasting so effectively removes the antigen/antibody complexes from your body's tissues that you may he pain-free, possibly for the first time in

The wife and the kids provide my exercise, but I have to be careful because I have rheumatoid arthritis all over my body.

In his well-known book The Anatomy of an Illness, Norman Cousins described how he overcame one of these autoimmune disorders, ankylosing spondylitis (a form of rheumatoid arthritis), by recognizing that it was emotionally induced and introducing a kind of humor therapy plus vitamin C.