With rheumatoid arthritis the organs of the body, such as the heart, lungs, and eyes, may also be affected. Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Not Solely a Joint Disease It Is a Systemic Disease RELATED: 10 Essential Facts About Inflammation and Rheumatoid Arthritis 2. Typically, with rheumatoid arthritis, the pattern of affected joints occurs symmetrically (in the same joint on both sides of the body). In RA, your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake, resulting in inflammation, pain, and swelling in affected body parts. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune, inflammatory, systemic disease. The risk of developing osteoarthritis increases with age. It is known as degenerative arthritis and also called wear-and-tear arthritis, aptly named because the cartilage that lines your joints wears down. It is the most common type of arthritis it’s the type that your grandparents have, most likely. Osteoarthritis affects over 32.5 million adults in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Not Osteoarthritis: 2 Different Types of Arthritis Let’s look at the top six things about RA that are difficult for people to comprehend: 1. You may live in the same house with people who don’t understand. It can be challenging and frustrating when the people who are closest to you don’t understand what you deal with on a daily basis and how RA impacts your life. Impossible.Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is among the types of arthritis that are difficult to understand and difficult to explain. To not stare up at the floor numbers or fiddle with your phone when you're sharing a lift with a stranger.Ĥ0. For anyone to think they're a bad driver.ģ9. To feel any sympathy for people who get thrown into horrible jails in Thailand for being drug mules.ģ8. To expect stimulating conversation with a man who is wearing a cap backwards on his head.ģ7. When you go out to a restaurant with a group of people, to like that person who grabs the bill and insists on working out what everybody owes to the last cent, and then steals an extra mint.ģ6. To play Trivial Pursuit without it resulting in some kind of argument.ģ5. For a man not to look like an idiot in an aerobics class.ģ4. After you've have a bad day at work, on your way home you declare that you are going to quit and go live on a Pacific island and wear a loin cloth and spear fish but, because you have a bond to pay off and children to bring up, this is impossible.ģ2. To finish a whole jar of anchovy paste before it goes off (you once had a craving for some on toast and then forgot you had the stuff so it got lost at the back of the fridge with the cottage cheese and a half-full tin of peas).ģ1. To fully understand the purpose of why you are here on Earth.ģ0. To look at a photo of yourself as a baby and identify with it completely.Ģ9. To find anything decent to eat in your house at around 10.30pm on any given Tuesday.Ģ8.
To be in the company of bubble wrap and not want to pop it.Ģ7. To board an airplane and not, for at least one second, think it might crash.Ģ6. To not be filled with love and awe whenever you see or think of Nelson Mandela.Ģ4. To not grimace inside when someone uses the word "kudos".Ģ3. To eat pasta in a new white shirt and not splatter sauce on it.Ģ2. For a woman to locate her cellphone in her handbag before it stops ringing.Ģ1. For a man to look wholly heterosexual in a convertible.Ģ0. For any man to look good in a Speedo.ġ8 To tell yourself, after a heavy night of drinking, that you will never drink like that again, and actually making good on that promise.ġ9. To not eventually get bored on a game drive.ġ7. To like, in any way, someone who scorns and demeans you for not recycling or caring about the environment and blames you for killing polar bears every time they see you drinking mineral water from a plastic bottle.ġ6. To remove the tight plastic wrapping from a new CD or DVD without getting annoyed.ġ5. To find the R2 coin that fell down the side of your car seat.ġ4.
For any woman not to enjoy Dirty Dancing.ġ3. To take pleasure in filling your car up with petrol.ġ2. To find the sport of curling engaging.ġ0. Not sometimes fantasising about being a sniper who keeps a ready-to-be-assembled rifle in an aluminium briefcase.Ĩ. To watch the end of Shawshank Redemption without crying.ħ. To reply "Yes" to those e-mail receipt requests.ĥ. To not swear when you stub your toe on something.Ĥ. To be civil to someone whose phone has just rung in the cinema.ģ. For a man not to steal a glance at a woman's cleavage when she's wearing a low-cut top.Ģ.
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