Shoulder injection

Well I've had the injection in my shoulder - the one I wasn't looking forward to in this post. In fact it all went very smoothly. I phoned the GP and she was quite amenable to doing the injection and gave me an appointment for the next day. While I was there I took the …

Food Hospital – Channel 4 on Wednesday

Someone on the NRAS blogging site mentioned that Food Hospital, a programme on Channel 4 that aims to help people tackle their medical problems through food, was featuring someone with RA this week, so I gritted my teeth and watched it. It' not something I've ever watched before and it exceeded my expectations; however, my …

Crash bang wallop

I've been cruising along very nicely thank you for the last few months. I made the mistake of getting used to it I think ... Great, I feel fine  ... let's get on with stuff then. Well, you only live once, people to see, things to do, natural history surveys to complete, courses to go …

Immune system has an on/off switch ‘in the mind’ …?

According to this article in the New Scientist (6 September 2012) the "the immune system has an on-off switch controlled by the mind". On reading the article, one feels that this isn't actually as daft as it sounds at first. The point is that, "the immune system is costly to run - so costly that …

Another injection coming up … ?

Thankfully this one will NOT be in my knee - the one in the knee was possibly the most painful experience of my life so far - but then again it was short-lived and it did cure the problem. This one, though, is going to be in my shoulder. If you've been reading the blog for a …