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I wonder if my RD will give me an email address to email her at. I can explain my pains & problems much better thru writting them. I have this thing of not talking when I am around people I do not know well, and my RD is one of them. Might have seen her oodles of times, but... I still am shy to talk.

I guess if she does not have an email address she is willing to let me send complaint emails to then... I will just fax her my posts. LOL! Faxing costs mulah... internet is no additional charge on the phone bill.

That is what I think I will do! I will just start faxing her my posts I make on here! Because I only post about stuff that is bothering me REALLY REALLY bad. So to me that is RD reading worthy!

Write down questions and complaints on a weekly basis and bring it in and hand it to her at your next visit.

I do that for every visit. Otherwise I would forget. My RD never has a problem with it. If you make her a copy and keep a copy for yourself you can write down her answers so you can remember what she said when you get home.

[QUOTE=joonie] I usually type of a letter to take to my RD at each visit. It gives a break down of what has been going on. He says he really appreciates it and keeps it in my file.[QUOTE=Bodak]I feel sure the Dr has other patients as well.
The DR would have to hire extra staff to handle all the updates.
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You know what? Maybe all of my problems I am having is because I do not state what is all wrong with me. I am not my best advocate in my treatment.

Plus... most of my problem right now and has been this one issue. I was hoping it would go away or I would be given meds that would fix the problem, but I CANNOT AFFORD the meds she RXed me. So... here I am stuck with the same problem but it only getting worse.

I have also acquired many more problems along the way. Which most have been addressed and have been given a med to help make it "all better". But in the process I have also lost a med that was helping this problem and many other small problems... like pain, stiffness, SWELLING, just to name a few.

My RA is so out of control you would not know what it would be like to have swelling hinder your everday life because it is limiting your movement and keeping you from doing things you SHOULD be able to do ALL THE TIME not just a few days out of the week.

Stephen... I am glad you do not know what it is like to have your RA ravage your body for 3 years and have non-stop swelling and in pain all the time.

I do not want anyone to feel bad for me or even feel sorry for me. I just want to see if I am the ONLY person that has these problems. From where I am at I am the ONLY person around me that has these problems. No one else around me can even relate to what I have going on with me. They all just feel sorry for me and you can see in their eyes and how they talk to me that they just feel sorry for me. I do not even tell half of my family what is going on with me because I do not want any thing from them, just for them to listen but it hurts many of them because they see I am not getting better but worse.

Oh well... I am off.

Whenever I go to see my Rd I always have notes.

Notes pertaining to my pain or pain that I had a week before.

Some thing that I read and have questions on that.

Really anything that I need to know about my Ra.

He really takes the time to answer all my questions or

questions my husband might have ( he goes to all my Appts with me).