RA

It's been a long, hard six weeks. Sometime in early June, my joints started hurting all over, all the time. It's only started to ease up this week.I don't like to feel like I'm begging for sympathy, so I've only told a handful of people outside of family. After two blood tests, it's been decided that I have Rheumatoid Arthritis.

It makes sense. My dad has it. I've know for a few years that I have bursitis, something that often goes hand-in-hand with RA and can become chronic when combined with RA. Even when I was at my lowest weight since high school three years ago before being pregnant, I couldn't run more than one mile.

It's really hard to have such an invisible problem. Other than slight swelling that is usually only visible to me, I look like I should be fine. Therefore, I tried my hardest to act like I was fine (to most people). I popped Ibuprofen like it was candy. I didn't tell my boss, which led her, understandably, to wonder why my writing wasn't so good this month.

I'm adjusting though. I'm eating foods and take supplements known to help (and thinking of trying an elimination diet), I've set up a chiropractic appointment and should be getting a specialist referral in the next week or so. I'm trying to get more sleep and take better care of myself.

Another part of my action plan is to keep doing the things I enjoy- like blogging. I didn't want to complain about the pain, but I should have kept blogging about about other things- like Brayden's birthday, Harry Potter, and politics (of course).  I think I'll backtrack and write about it all anyway. It's like therapy, and I think my personal writing helps me with my paid writing as well.

I will start posting my random musings again tomorrow hopefully. I don't want this post at the top of my blog for long. I want to get back to being my nerdy, all over the place self.