Hi All -

Just wanted some feedback from old and new members relative to the ease of communicating on this site.  Wrote to technical support via the 'forum' tab shown above.  Don't see the post at all, let alone an answer to my query about a tutorial option.  Communication feedback areas, which I believe are of key importance to users, are not clearly mapped out.

Don't consider myself a computer illiterate, but this site has sure made posting communications tough.  More have just disappeared than I've been able to send.  Had to give up the first day as re-typing became too painful.  Darned easy to find the Big Pharma's propaganda though......

This article appeared in the NYTimes today. I'd like to know if I am the only RA sufferer with brain fog. is it the disease itself and or the combinations of medications?  I was diagnosed about 8 months ago (on my birthday at that)

(I  am currently taking plaqunil and arava, until last month methotrexate was part of the cocktail as well, but since having no immune system i contracted MRSA pnuemonia(spent 10 days in the hospital) my doctor has held off on the methotrexate and i will be trying Rituxan .)

There are a few articles on RA and cognitive impairment in the  medical literature but not a lot.  The type of impairments in this article describe my symptoms to a T. My physicians understand this, but  since I am a consultant , it's made the job difficult. I have tried to explain this to my manager who has the empathy of a rock, to no avail.

I'd be interested in hearing  from others

Personal Health:  The Fog That Follows Chemotherapy
By JANE E. BRODY
Nearly every chemotherapy patient experiences short-term problems with memory and concentration, but for some the problems are more prolonged.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/health/04brod.html?ref=health

Hi everyone,

This is my first entry.  i'm the third generation of RA (asymmetrical) and duaghter has another form of an auto-immune disease.

I was searching for info on RA & foot pain.  Found an old blog entry but the individual has not logged on in over a year.  Has anyone found any relief to the foot pain?  Thank god for my memory foam slippers as those first steps of the morning are not pleasant.  The orthodics made it worse...so didn't go back.

The steriods made the pain go away, the plaquenil has kept in livable in everywhere but my feet. I'm not one who likes to sit still, so this is hard for me.

Dear Fellow Sufferers-

It is so sad to read what some of you folks are going through with the wonderful pharmaceutical choices offered to "treat" RA.  One of the reasons I have yet to sign on for drugs.  Can't decide which system or organs I want to destroy.  I'm living with my debilitating pain trying every alternative before resorting to drugs, hence my seeking a website where I can talk to others with RA.  I have strong suspicions this isn't the vehicle for that, since to the right of this screen is a note that entries are "moderated" by (whom?)  and must be APPROVED.  Sounds like high school to me, and so sad!!

Hope this fifth try to send a communication works...

DC Whitfield