Does anyone think that RA could be a symptom as opposed to being an actual disease in itself? What I mean is that it appears that researchers cant pin down what causes RA and I believe that is because many different things can cause it in different people such as hormones, allergies, deficiencies, stress, genes, etc so perhaps it is actually a symptom (albeit a horrible one) on an underlying disorder /with and underlying cause which is could be different each of us. I wish i could find my cause -because i am fed up looking for it.
Check out this thread. It discusses that very topic at length.
http://www.arthritisinsight.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=58 28&KW=infection+theory
excellent - good reading! thanks
flint it is a set of symptoms they use to make the DX. I think lots of us actually have a whole bunch of different diseases that got labeled RA.
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