RA/Hereditary | Arthritis Information

So, my maiden name is very rare and my parents' families were blown apart by the Great Depression, so we know little to nothing about our family's history. Well, for the few who understood my obscure post last month, a person read about my brother in the news and called him because he might be a long-lost relative. Suddenly, there is a barrage of people with the same last name emailing all of us, trying to figure it out. They had hardly any other family to connect with either and they couldn't believe they found a story about my brother in the news.

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Uhhhh...pathetic you say...about me? I just looked at your website, saw your picture, I think you're the pathetic one and now I know why.

So now I am curious - can we do polls in here? Could we do a poll to see who has a family history of RA and who doesn't?

Shame on you and this forum!

AchingAudrey2008-11-30 11:07:45So, does anyone know if we can do polling in here? Perhaps I could start a hereditary thread and I would love to know who has a background of RA.

Justsaynoemore....My mother was adopted. But my mother is full of arthritis and has been since her 40's. She has had 9 surgeries on her knees being several total replacements and revisions. I have 3 older sisters, 2 already have had both their knees replaced and my third sister has been told the same. She is trying to hold off. She is only 46. I sincerely believe there is hereditary aspects that make us susceptible to diseases like arthritis.

I hope you have luck in finding family members. And even if you find they are not related you might very well develop a nice friendship. Best Wishes to you.

I don't seem to have anyone in my family background with RA. However, just last week my mom was talking about some pain and problems she has been experiencing lately which sound very much like they could be RA related. She is 62, so it is very plausible she could be developing it. She is adopted and does not have a lot of information about her family health or her birth father's side, so there could be something there. Not sure. It would make sense though. It's really fascinating that you are finding family!There are several in my family who have/had arthritis. Mom's youngest sister had severe RA and many surgeries and died of complications from RA. Two of Mom's other sisters had RA but not so severe. Dad's Mom had osteoarthritis as did one of his sisters. First cousin has Fibro and another has RA. I would say there is a genetic connection in my family.

Ann

My dad has ra and my mom, sister and 2 brother's all have ai diseases.

Congrats on all the new family by the way!!!

reegie2008-11-09 10:13:42[QUOTE=AchingAudrey]So nice to see that you can cut and paste justsaynoemore. Would you please explain why you feel it necessary to make up such lies about me. I am trying to improve my ratings in here with people to make up for all the nasty posts, but when post stuff like this it makes people think twice. Are you intentionally trying to sabotage me? Please, for the sake of this forum and all who are members of it, stop![/QUOTE]

Your not doing a very good job!I can't believe that someone would post someone else's picture without their permission, just to prove they're "right". AA, you're lucky it wasn't JSNM. You're way off base, and WAY out of line.

JSNM, my great aunt on my Mother's has RA, which developed when she was 90.In my retirement I started doing genealogy. I just found living cousins on my dad's side of the family. Its really exciting when you make connections you never had before. From my "new" 80 year old cousin I found out her granddaughter has RA as did her great Aunt-my gr grandfathers sister. Or at least she remembers her aunt having crippling arthritis

Shame on you and this forum!

AchingAudrey2008-11-30 11:04:12

My uncle (dad's side) had RA and my cousin (mom's side) has psoriais arthritis. I've had very little contact with anyone on my dad's side for probably 15 years, so there could be more and I'm just not aware.

Cathy

inflamed, graciesmom, ann, reggie, go-go, buck, cathy - it is exciting and buck you really got to find some family - you are very lucky. It was kinda strange and all of a sudden you have the possibility of all sorts of aunts and uncles and cousins. And it will be a great relationship, even if it isn't blood related, which would be too bad with the RA connection :(

Audrey - let me give you a hint, you jump to conclusions. What you are WRONG about is not my picture (and that is me) but stating that I am in real estate. I am a mortgage broker, which is clearly spelled out in my website and by golly in my profile in here. A real estate broker and a mortgage broker are two separate entities just for your knowledge so you ignorance factor gets lower.

The pm from you which I posted this morning on this thread (reminding me of how sick I look now, thanks) is dated just after midnight last night, and then you start in on me 8 hours later about my picture. What an amazing coincidence. Its saved in my inbox and I will post a screenshot if necessary. So everybody knows its you that pmed me, so keep bleating away that you have turned a new leaf. You haven't: you are the liar, the stalker, the krap stirrer.

Please leave me alone. Thank you.

jsnm,

I'm sorry your pic was posted like that. I just want to say though that you have a beautiful smile!

My dad's cousin had arthritis as a child. She was a very sick little girl and only lived to be 7.

I have a first cousin with ra, I have ra and my son has jra. There is a lot of AI disease in my father's side of the family.

AA you are not "goated' into being ugly, you just are.

Shame on you and this forum!

AchingAudrey2008-11-30 11:04:46

Shame on you and this forum!

AchingAudrey2008-11-30 11:03:49I have a lot of AI hx in my family........pernicious anemia, viteligo, psoriasis, allergies, asthma and my great uncle on my Dad's side had RA. Pam, Goldie - its kinda tipping more towards it runs in the family in this very unofficial Study of Us - I have, again, been thinking that everyone of us has our own versions of "RA" or "AI", whatever. And the medical system wants to box us into "billing codes", and this would be impossible if each RAers' journey is different and individual, from different symptoms in the wrong body parts and a medication working for one of us, but not the other. Maybe its an insolvable Rubic's cube. JSNM...noone in my family has had RA...just me

oh..btw..you're a lovely woman with a great smile!

Well, I am going to enjoy this new family that has suddenly appeared - buckeye - can you recommend a good genealogy site? Take care all ~~ Cathy

the best one is ancestry.com but its a pay site though most libraries offer a version for free. You can go to familysearch.com and do research for free. This is the site run by the LDS church. I use a combination of the two sites plus several others but now I'm getting into the have to go to a library or pay visits to the area courthouse period. Its 2008 everything should be on the internet (lol)I think you look really pretty in the picture, although you do look thin. (But not disturbingly so).My mother seems to remember several of her elderly relatives having some sort of disableing arthritis. As far as we know she has only osteoarthritis although lately I've noticed her fingers have become very misshapen and painful. She is 92 and that could explain it too.

Btw, I think that is a very nice picture of you. I think you look "just right".

buck - thanks for the info - I know how important this is to Mormons. Thank you Go-Go and miles - I need to take off about 5 lbs. now :)

JSNM... you're gorgeous woman!

I am a stock broker (ass't) so I guess that means I drive stock cars, huh, AA?

I have family history on both sides.. My G-grandmother had it and type 2 diabetes... my grandmom had it.. My mom had Raynaud's and other things that were never addressed before she passed... my dad has gout... and just had a hip replacement at 73 years. I was DX'd w/ JRA at age 10.

My parents were both only children so I dont' have any cousins or aunts and uncles to compare with... and all other family is deceased...I've recently begun geneology and have traced my lineage to Britain and Ireland and I have a friend who travels to my family's hometown in England every year.. I hope to find some family there!!

I have an idea of a poll...... it involves ignoring someone babs - thank you - my hubby thinks so, that's all I need!

Gawd, I couldn't imagine being in the stock broker business right now - what a frigging mess.

Okay, its tipping more and more towards hereditary. This has been very interesting.

I won !!!!

My maternal great grandmother had RA pretty bad and she had a daughter (my great aunt) who was in a wheelchair by her 40's so I do have a bit in my family. I have it on both sides, (grandmothers), a 1st cousin and my mom has Lupus. I was always the child never sick in my family. If I could turn back time...

lori, waddie - this has been a very interesting informal poll, its going about 80/20 to having hereditary arthritic ancestors. And waddie, my entire childhood I kept saying, I think something is wrong ... - told it was growing pains and to put up with it. I too would like to turn back time. My mom and sister have Fibro. That's it as far as I know. I do tell my RD that I should get a discount since I have brought him the family business.roccky - LOL - how much of a discount?My Dr out of the blue on my last appointment said he thought I might have Psoratic Arthritis instead of plain RA. Something about my tendons being inflamed but he had no idea that I had a Great Uncle with the same thing. Unfortunately he drank his pain away and is not around to talk to now but my immediate thought was that this is inherited for sure. Initially I was blaming the steel mills I grew up next too. Who knows what was in the air we breathed and the water we drank back then. My main concern is my daughter. She is starting to complain here and there about aches and pains like I did when I was her age. My Dr told me not to get her tested because she will show positive whether she has it or not. We will just have to go by symptoms when/if the time comes. Turns out OA is huge on my dad's side. He remembers his grandfather walking with canes and has found ancestor medical records talking about OA. However, given how young they were when dx'd, I can't help but wonder if some of it wasn't RA.

Other AI: mother with asthma and OA, father with hemochromitosis and OA, cousin with MS, uncle with diabetes, aunt and cousin with severe OA, grandmother had diabetes.

My AI list: RA, asthma, fibro

And enjoy discovering your 'new' family! My dad is huge into genealogy which is how we found the old military service medical records talking about OA.
Joy2008-11-09 19:51:11I'm the only person in my family that got lucky enough to have RA. My mother and her sister both had RA; her sister also had Myasthenia Gravis. My father's sister had Multiple Sclerosis. My father, one sister and my 2 children have asthma. One of my sisters has CTD - with some RA stuff & some Lupus features. Another sister had an arthritis flare as a teen but nothing since then (she's 45 y/o now) but she wonders if she'll be the next to get RA. I think another autoimmune disease that seems to run in families is hypothyroidism. It would be easier for me to list my family members who don't have this.Crap! Having talked to my dad I found out that he remembers his grandmother having badly deformed fingers and toes. He says that although she was never diagnosed, he suspects it was RA. But if that's the case, why then didn't he or any of the other 10 kids in his family get it? Maybe the gene that codes for RA is recessive or something. Maybe it skips a generation. Or maybe I'm just really lucky?

Lorraine has moved this topic over to a new one so we don't have to re-live the smackdown - I hope lots of us post over on this new thread about your family and if there is RA/AI involved. Thanks for everyone posting. Bob, you crack me up. Take care ~~ Cathy

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