Update WAS Re: Any swollen glands from RA?

[Guest guest]

I am so glad that you had that checked, and I'm so happy to hear

that it is just a lymph node. This disease is scary enough without

having to worry about something like that!

Has anyone out there developed diabetes since ra? I have and my

rheumy says that it sure does complicate things.

Hugs and God bless,

Gloria in OK

> ****Does any one ever get swollen glands from RA. I get swollen

joints

> (wrists, knees, ankles and one knuckle) all the time. Six months

> before I was dx with RA, I had a lump just below my arm pit. It

went

> away after a few months. Now 4 years later, I've had another lump

in

> the same spot for about 2 months. I'm wondering if this is a

symptom

> of RA.****

>

[Guest guest]

wrote: > I thought I'd post an update. I went to the my RA Dr. this

afternoon.

> He said the lump under my arm pit wasn't from RA. He said it was a

> swollen lymph node. He said some people get it from time to time and

> it will probably happen again. What a relief!

Ardeith writes: I got those, for years, until I quit shaving under my arms.

My doctor - primary care - said that shaving sometimes sliced off the top of

the little hair folicule (sp?) and it healed shut....and caused the hair to

grow under the skin, and created that swelling. Like many black men can get

if they shave too close. I'm told there are products black men use,

instead of razors, to prevent this. I dunno for sure....not being a black

man, or living with one, or knowing a black man well enough to ask such an

intimate question. The PC doctor also said that one could damage the

opening of sweat glands by shaving armpits, and these could also swell up

like a boil under the arm.....

So, not wanting one more thing to cause me pain....I had enough pain

already!... I stopped the shaving armpits.....not such a big problem as I

had quit wearing sleeve- less shirts and dresses long before. I have fat

upper arms and the " muscles " have migrated below the arm....reverse muscles?

The beginning of fat wings? Anyway, I didn't like to display them. And my

body hair is pale.....so no one would notice a hair shadow under a white

shirt.....not that I wear white very often. I can't keep a white shirt

clean more than a few minutes it seems.

Ardy