Calling on my knowledgable friends for help!
Last week my neighbor (40 year old mom of 6) called me, terribly short of
breath and in horrible pain. I ran over there to find her laying across the
couch with the 6 month old in her arms. She had no color, lips were gray, short

Has anyone one experienced the RA or what feels like the ra in the pelvic
bones? also the bones in-between the legs, when I had my pap smear I kept
telling the doctor it is like someone pushing constantly on the bones in
that area?  Just wondering.

http://www.biospace.com/news_story.cfm?StoryID=17602520&full=1
<<snip>>
After approximately ten treatments, one hundred percent of the two hundred
subjects in the study had completely discontinued all pain medications

With all the bad news this week concerning RA drugs, I am wondering what to
take or not to take. I presently take plaqunil, naproxin, mtx, and remicade.
Now remicade is sounding scary and I thought mtx was the one to be concerned
about. Now they say both cause the same thing so I ...

Perceptions of Fatigue in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Overwhelming,
Uncontrollable, Ignored
Sarah Hewlett1, Maggie Hehir1, Margaret Byron1, Zoe Cockshott1, Karen
Kitchen1, Sue Tipler2, Denise Pope2. 1University of Bristol, Bristol,

Has anyone heard lately from Walt, Rebecca Ford, Dawn O.
I am going thru some old messages on disk and these were the three I thought
of so far.

1. How Do You Catch a Unique Rabbit?Unique Up On It.
2. How Do You Catch a Tame Rabbit?Tame Way, Unique Up On It.
3. How Do Crazy People Go Through The Forest?They Take The Psycho Path
4. How Do You Get Holy Water?  You Boil The Hell Out Of It.

After having found out that my pharmacy had forgotten to refrigerate my
Enbrel refill for a day and a half, I called Amgen/Enbrel to update my
understanding of their policy in such cases.  Not totally satisfied with the
nurse's response, I was redirected to a second level nurse.  ...

We got a new kitty today! All black, shorthair with a long tail. A mom and two
kittens were abandoned at my daughters boyfriends house so we took one of the
kittens.
Looking for name suggestions! BTW it's a boy!!

Dietary Caffeine Intake and Methotrexate Efficacy in Rheumatoid
Arthritis
E. Benito-Garcia, NE Maher, HM Matthews, JA Bilics, J. Karlson, ME
Weinblatt, NA Shadick. Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Men & women compliment each other by the unique traits we were each given:
WOMEN:
Women have strengths that amaze men. They carry children, they carry
hardships, they carry burdens, but they hold happiness, love and joy. They

Have a very "Happy Thanksgiving", and don't eat too much turkey or
pumpkin  pie.
Rose
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Well, my friend Toni is doing better, and after two week long sessions
in the hospital is home.  Infections are conquered, but Hep C treatment
is stopped, so have to hope it was long enough.  Her spleen is still a
concern, as there is nothing to do for it except hope it will be ...

I was told by my infusion nurse last year that it is very important that
people who are on remicade to get the flu shot. My question is why? Is it
because our immune system is compromised by the med?
RhondaM

http://www.biospace.com/news_story.cfm?StoryID=17602520&full=1
<<snip>>
After approximately ten treatments, one hundred percent of the two hundred
subjects in the study had completely discontinued all pain medications