You Know you have Arthritis when.....
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So I have been in extreme ankle pain alot lately and right now all I can think about is my doc appt at 1pm today and that is all I can think about the last couple days is I just cant wait. Soooooo
You know you have Arthritis when you wait all day and excitment builds up to...Go to the Rheumy doctor! LOL
Any other you know you have arthritis when? I bet we can get a pretty big list lol
Emily
I love it! I bet I can come up with a lot. For now, how about...
--you also get super excited about your Humira day
--you plan the entire week around methotrexate fatigue
--the first think you think if you have to go somewhere fancy is... oh no! do i have to wear high heels??
--you've wondered if there is such a thing as a whole body icepack
You know you have Arthritis when :
- You walk past a couple waiting areas with young to middle aged adults to finally reach yours at the end, by all the cute lil old ladies who look at you as if you are in the wrong place when you register and sit among them waiting.
- You literaly have a drawer at the bottom of your dresser for 'flare up' or 'bad pain day' clothes
- Shoe shopping is NOT fun lol
You know you have arthritis when...
* You are jealous of people with "better" diseases b/c they get free hair. 
(I know that one will be controversial, but it is also true!!!)
* You long to lie on the beach, but dread walking on the sand.
* Your wedding rings are too big, but you refuse to get them sized b/c you know any day your fingers could swell and they'll fit again.
* People wonder if your husband is abusive b/c you sport so many injection site bruises!
* Your senionr citizen MOTHER has more strength than you.
* You say, "Honey, we can have sex tonight, but only if we can accomplish it w/out my having to spread my legs at all." (If your husband is as motivated as mine, he'll find a way anyway - learned this lesson!
* You sometimes let your three year old son take credit for your handwriting.
* You watch all the horrible reality t.v. you swore you never would b/c its just too darn hard to hold a book at times!!!
- Kati
- Seeing as how I'm bed-ridden today, I'll probably be back w/ 50 more!!!!
This is a great thread btw,
- you know you have arthritis when your 9 year old grandson has to cut your meat for you!
- when your two year old grandaughter hands your cane and says here mum-mum (oh yea your only 46).
- when your senior citizen neighbor is the one helping you walk across the street
- when you buy new knives, dishes, glass because you can no longer hold the ones you have!
- you get jealous that the senior walking with that walker got theirs paid for by medicare and you can't get one!
Kati sorry your in bed with a flare. This has been a tough month for me also, I have never been in so much pain, I was almost at a breaking point but Hubby has made major purchases and changes in the house to make it much easier. Though I am feeling as though I am giving in and considering long term disability from work.
Oh well just another day with RA...
This almost like "...you know you're a redneck" jokes, only not so funny. 
"When you need one whole travel carry-on for your medicine bottles...you might be a creaky."
"When your significant other is one his knees before you, and it's not to declare undying love, but to put on your socks...you might be a creaky."
"When you notice that when your left pinkie finger doesn't hurt you consider it a good day...you might be a creaky."
Anyone else?
LOL I LOVE it! I esp love the one about the wedding rings. My engagement ring is too big because I know my fingers will swell up, and over the weekend we went to get our wedding bands and the lady looked at me like i was crazy with I said the ring I had on was perfect( one size to big is perfect for a creaky )
You know you have arthritis when :
You take off two vacation hours early from work one day and its NOT for a doctor appt so then when you get home you dont know what to do cause you are so use to rushing home early from work and gettting ready to go to the doctor!
You can look at and relate to the list and laugh and cry at the same time
Emily
LOL! That is so TRUE, emmie!
When your knee (or back, or shoulder, etc.) cracks loud enough to make people a hundred feet away turn their heads and exclaim "What was that?"...you might be a creaky.
(Score extra points if there are multiple walls and closed doors between you and them. Super bonus points if it was heard over the roar of the coffee grinder.)
haaha. Carolan, you crack me up. so do the rest of you!
Hmm. You know you're a creaky if...
-you have ever left the pharmacy with a full sized grocery sack full of meds (totally happened to me!)
-also, at the pharmacy you don't even have to tell them your name anymore, they just go get your meds!
-you have ever had to change a recipe because you bought a new ingredient and couldn't get the damn jar open!
lol I am really loving this list. As of last night I have another one to add.
You know you have arthritis when:
You get new wood flooring and you walk on it the first time and it creaks a little and you stop because you actually think its you thats creaking and for once you find out its not you its the Floor! lol
ROFL! Almost all the floors in our house creak. Now it makes me feel more emotionally connected to it.
CREEEEAK!
"Aw, poor baby. Here's a shot of WD40..."
How about when you walk into the Chiropracter and you start cracking before you lay down on the adjustment table. Mine loves when this happens...
You know you are a Creaky when Merck calls and asks to borrow some of your meds because they ran out!!!
When you have to upgrade you medicine cabinet because it is too small to house your daily scripts... I have an entire cabinet in my office for just my medcation.
I think i really like this thread!!!
LOL I love the Merck comment! Too Funny!
You know you have Arthritis when:
You hear on the morning news that there is a storm coming in the afternoon and you think 'is this going to hurt'?
Even better, when it's a beautiful sunny day and you can predict that within 48 hours it will be storming without having to check the news or the internet. And you're always right!
LMAO - I hadn't checked this thread in a while. You guys added some great ones!!! Kate - I honestly laughed so hard at the grocery bag one. I can totally relate!!!!
Tesssa - I hope you are feeling better! I will add you to my prayers.
Ok, here are some more...
You know you are a creaky when...
* Your neighbor is a doctor, and he diagnoses your condition while watching you walk to the mailbox!
* Your thirty-five year old, football-loving husband knows how to use a hair straightener to help you achieve your best "do" for a night out.
* You have ever watched a really BAD spanish soap opera because you couldn't move your fingers enough to change the channel!
[[ Your thirty-five year old, football-loving husband knows how to use a hair straightener to help you achieve your best "do" for a night out.]]
Nice. But the real question is, can he pull off carrying your purse and still look manly?
And hey, those Spanish language soap operas are fun - particularly after a few ice cold cervesas!
Hello everybody! I'm new to the site and already absolutely love you guys! Humor is the best medicine and these posts have made my day! How about this one.....
You know you have arthritis when you have no problem asking the woman next to you in the gym locker room to help take off your shirt.
(yep...my shoulder was deciding not to cooperate that day and I had no choice. Thankfully she did help and I was able to get my bathing suit on for water aerobics with all the senior ladies! Yeah to the only workout I can do!)
Hi Amber! Welcome, and, um, dive right in! I also have no problem asking the stranger next to me to open my soda or water bottle.
Hi Amber! Welcome to creakyjoints!
I had a hilarious moment on the plane when the woman next to me (who was not very old, probably somewhere in the middle of middle aged), turned to me and asked me to open her bottle because she was arthritic. Now, that was awkward, because what do you say "No! I'm arthritic too!" somehow, it just sounds like some kind of really bizarre copy-cat fake out...
Oh Kate, too funny...would sound like a bizarre copy-cat rake out...
You know you have arthritis when your most cherished possession is the box of Enbel on the bottom shelf of your refrigerator.
You really know you have arthritis when you drive from pharmacy to pharmacy like a drug crazed addict, begging pharmacists to sell you just one syringe without a prescription, because the one pharmacy with your prescription closed early, and it is mtx night, and you are out of needles.
Welcome Amber!
Hugs to all my fellow creakies who keep me laughing
Amber Welcome to creaky... This is a great site and the folks here are wonderful and i am proud to call them all my FRIENDS...We are CREAKY Friends but still friends.
You know you have RA when u are the only one in a Water Gym Class and feel out of place because you are under the age of 70 and no blue hair...
yes ladies, i have started a water class at the gym (warm water pool) and the only ones in the class are seniors... It is rough being 46 - 47 with RA anymore....
Kati - Thanks it has been a couple rough months with going back to work and have had this Flare that won't quit. It dies down for a few hours at a time but doesn't want to go away completely. I'm at a loss but it is what it is...
Thanks for the welcome Tessa...and I LOVE water class too! Don't you just love that although we are the youngest in the class by 30 something years, the seniors are kicking our butts on exercises. They try to help ME with the movements...haha. Goodness I love them though for being so understanding, patient, and supporting of me!
Amber, That is so true....so this one goes:
You know you have RA when the senior's have to help you with your water exercises!!!
or When the seniors can out walk you to the best lane in the pool...
Well, my Primary doc is running Vitamin D tests on me to work on a theory she has with another group of doc's nothing official but they are trying to determine a link with Vit D deficienceies to RA. Sounds interesting so I will let you all know how that turns out...I get enough blood taken what's one more test.
Here's one more:
You know you have RA when you meet someone else that has it and you found a new life long friend!!
This week I found out that there are 2 people I have worked with for over 2 years now also have it. Gave them this site maybe they will join us!!!
Oh yea: You know you have RA when you invite your other RA friends to Creakyjoints!!!!
I don't know if this quite fits, but it keeps making me laugh anyways, so I'll write it so it fits.
You know you have RA when you're really torn, because the plastic bags your methotrexate comes in from the pharmacy are like, the best thickest studiest plastic bags ever. And you want more than anything to use those bags for something useful like, liquids at the airport, or something else. But, you know you can't because it has "chemotherapy agent: biohazard" written on the outside in huge bright yellow letters, and it'll obviously freak everyone else but you out...
LOL I love the dishes one. So true! I have another one that I do that kinda goes with it. You know you have arthritis when...You have no dishes that need washing but you fill up the sink anyway to soak your hands/fingers in the warm water
I do that when I'm really cold and can't seem to get warm - soak my hands and maybe my feet in hot water. I can feel the heated blood flowing up my arms!
You know you have arthritis when people start pointing out the bruises on your body that you never noticed. Bruises from things that you obviously bumpped in to or were hit by,
Things that you never noticed because they were under a 5 on the pain scale... therefore below the threshold where we take notice anymore
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