Re: just feeling sorry for myself

[Guest guest]

Maybe I'm just being melodramatic, but I feel I have to face the possibility

that this could just be the start of it. I've got quite scared about what

this PA could do to me. I've read all your postings for the last few months,

and it was easy to think " I won't get that bad " , but now I realise that it

might. >>

You know, Ali, initially I stopped reading this newsgroup because it gave me

an incredible sense of doom and gloom. The fact is that not everyone

develops a debilitating form of this disease. And you know what - what

you're feeling may be the " start of it " , but it's just as likely that it may

NOT be the " start of it " . We have room to increase the dosages of the

medications we take. You're on sulphasalazine, you could move over to MTX,

and if that doesn't work, you could try a cocktail. Who knows what else may

come out of research. I try very hard live in today, because I dont' know

what will happen tomorrow or five years from now. And I can't worry about

it, or I'll miss what's happening now, and that would be a tremendous loss.

I'm making memories today, and that's where I need to be.

Patty