What Others Need to Know About Rheumatoid Arthritis

What do you need those who may not understand RA and all that it entails to know?

How the pain affects life, how giving up a loved career can feel, how losing how and what you were. How feeling you are dragging your husband down with you, how sometimes loved ones would be better off without you. Fear of the future.

How do you explain what living with RA is really like to those around you?

I don't, they think I'm moaning so keep stumm!!

For those who don't know, RA may be confusing. What do you need people to know about RA and how it is to live with it?

How exhausting constant pain can be and how demoralising feeling different can be.