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When it comes to your health, it wouldn’t come as much of a shock if you’ve been down this kind of road before; the kind with random stops and sometimes-unexpected traffic, the kind where you might find yourself all of a sudden pushing ninety clicks to a destination you won’t stay at for very long. For me and my journey, it was no exception! For me, it took repeated returns to specialists I had already seen. Specialists who were trained for a particular issue, whether I had i

I got diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 2023. Before getting sick, I was always busy. But once my symptoms started to appear, I simply could not keep up with such a packed schedule. Keeping up with college was impossible and I had to take a semester off, my social life had to be reduced to almost a non-existing one and I was not able to do house chores either. My abilities had suddenly changed, and I did not know how to manage this new body. I could not control when or h

Life has a way of testing us in ways we never imagined. For me, that test came in the form of a chronic, invisible illness called...

Being chronically ill has many challenges. There's the obvious part of it, where you feel exhausted and drained, living in a body that...

When I was a teenager, I thought love was supposed to feel like a full-blown Taylor Swift music video, all-consuming, heart-racing, “I’d...

This morning, I realized something I've never contemplated before—probably because I've never had a reason to. I'm not an athlete, so the...

If you’ve been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), you know that these conditions can be...

The mental health struggles of arthritis

Unlike most people with both fibromyalgia and arthritis, my fibromyalgia was diagnosed several years before my arthritis. I was diagnosed...

When I was 11, I got a diagnosis that changed my life: juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). But let’s be real, my body had been throwing...

For a long time, I carried my suffering as a personal burden, convinced it only affected me. But as I grew older and took a step back, I...

Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve wanted to be a lawyer. When I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at 18 years old, I wondered if...