RA Blog Week: Day 5 – Great blogs I’ve read this week

September 30, 2016 at 5:39 pm | Posted in arthrits, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 1 Comment
Tags: biologics, depression, joints, pain meds, RA, RA blog week, Rheumatoid arthritis

My picks are top heavy towards the top of the list of contributors, not because they’re (as far as I know) any better than the bottom of the list or the middle, but because I started being methodical and going to each blog in turn, and then I got short of time and had to skip to a few others at random – so if I’ve missed you out it’s nothing personal!

I seem to have found the biologics posts especially interesting and inspiring, maybe because it’s something I know so little about. I really enjoyed the wide variety of takes on this fascinating topic.

Starting stories: A depressingly typical but nicely written starting story can be found at Jax.

Biologics: A great, and well balanced, tale of biologics from someone who has had a LOT of experience at As My Joints Turn. And a less positive one, sadly, so far, for Trish. But to balance that, Brenda has had a great experience. And a wonderful post in defence of biologics from Lene at the Seated View, and a fascinating alternative take (as always) from Cateepoo. 

Wildcards: There’s a terrific post about RA and depression over at Single Rheum including some great advice.

Active versus passive patient: A nice take on this from J G Chayko and the old lady in her bones. 

The pain of pain meds: Arthriticchick says it all and Deserae’s is actually painful to read  … but I think you should! I really empathized with this one.

It’s been a fascinating week and I’ve come across a whole heap of blogs I didn’t know were out there.

Thanks to Rick Philips of RADiabetes for setting it all up and introducing me to them, and for some great posts of his own. I wish I had had time to participate more fully and post and read more but it’s been one of those weeks! Maybe next year …

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