![]() ![]() As a result, she fed herself with difficulty and could barely hold a cup of water. After treatments with countless medications failed miserably, she had surgery to reroute and repair ruptured hand tendons. ![]() I desperately wanted to help, but her aggressive RA wasn't going to wait for me or medical research. Seeing the treatments make her worse was beyond heart-wrenching. Seeing her suffer from the disease was excruciating. I was a budding doctor, working around the clock to learn all the answers about how to treat and heal medical conditions. Nothing stopped the aggressive progression of her joint pain and joint destruction. Anti-inflammatory medicines gave her an ulcer. Regular injections of gold and methotrexate gave her nausea and headaches but didn't reduce her pain. Multiple joints swell, hurt, and degenerate. The resulting inflammatory response is incredibly intense. By the time I graduated from medical school, my sixty-two-year-old mother had already suffered through several surgeries for her rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a despicable form of arthritis where the body attacks its own joints as it would invading bacteria. ![]()
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