Reply To: Arthritis in young people

Teenager,

I do not have rheumatoid arthritis BH. Rheumatoid arthritis is usually quite severe. I don’t think what I have is considered Juvenile arthritis as the onset was at age 17 1/2.

Yoshi,

Thanks for the advice. I am on medication. As I said I see a doctor regularly and keep monitering it through blood tests as well. This helps a lot. (I know because when I was off medication for a while it was really bad and when I’m on medication it’s not so bad) but I still have a lot of pain in my hands (fingers) and in my feet which I am so used to that I barely notice but I wonder if there are any specific things I can do that would really work. Also do you know if arthritis always progresses with age? If that is the case, that means I will be in really bad shape in 20 years?

Also is too much excercise not good either?

I read up on this already, but I don’t really know anyone in my situation and would like to hear from real people not only from texts.