Re: family history--michelle

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:

I worry about my kids too. I worry every time they

complain of any joint pain, body pain, or fatigue -

anything that even remotely sounds RA/Fibro-ish. My

daughter, at 18, has migraines, bilateral carpal

tunnel, and severely painful periods, and so many

members have also had like problems that it scares me.

I, too, pray that the autoimmune diseases in this

family ends with me, and does not get passed on.

Kathe in CA

--- mishlev05 <mishlev05@...> wrote:

> Hi Kathe,

> its amazing how it runs in the family so

> frequently, I just hope/prey my kids don't end up

> living there lives with RA and or one of these other

> auto immune problems

> michelle

> Kathe Sabetzadeh <lv2ryd@...> wrote:

> Hi:

>

> My grandmother had RA (crippled her hands and she

> ended up in a wheelchair too), my grandfather had

> Psoriasis (and I suspect Psoriatic RA), and my dad

> has

> Raynaud's. Somehow he escaped the RA monster. So

> immune system problems run in my family too.

>

> Kathe in CA

>

> --- mishlev05 <mishlev05@...> wrote:

>

> > Hi Sue.

> > Thats amazing that there was history that you

> > didnt know about, I am the youngest of 10 kids and

> I

> > have screened everyone Aunts, Uncles etc and other

> > than my uncles wife(married into family) who had

> RA

> > and died at the age of 43 from complications to

> the

> > RA there is no one.....

> > Thanks for responding

> >

> >

> > Sue <marysue@...> wrote:

> > When my rheumy asked if there was RA in my

> family,

> > I said no. Then I

> > found out that my mother's sister had it. I knew

> > that she had

> > arthritis, but she kept quiet about it and had

> never

> > said that it was

> > RA. She also wore long sleeves all of the time to

> > hide the huge nodules

> > on her elbows. Sue

> >

> > On Friday, December 2, 2005, at 05:32 AM,

> mishlev05

> > wrote:

> >

> > > I was diagnosed with Ra in 2003 and have always

> > said no when asked if

> > > there is a family history.....one of my friends

> > recently heard that

> > > diabetes (which my mum has) can be counted as

> > family history does

> > > anyone know anymore about this????

> >

> >

> >

> >