Rheumatoid Arthritis Unmasked

What if no one confused rheumatoid disease with just arthritis?What if the world understood that people with rheumatoid disease (RD) are not hypochondriacs because they have so many health problems?What if all of the effects of the disease were treated ¿ not dismissed or ignored?Rheumatoid Arthritis Unmasked solves a primary problem for people living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the false impression that they are only fighting a type of arthritis.The facts in this book shatter the myth that too often confuses family, friends, employers, and most importantly medical personnel. In Rheumatoid Arthritis Unmasked you¿ll learn why the historical term rheumatoid disease (RD) describes not a type of arthritis, but a complex systemic disease with arthritis as only one of its symptoms. You¿ll understand how the fallacy of ¿arthritis¿ not only creates communication problems for people fighting RD, but also contributes to the devastating mortality gap by hindering needed clinical care and research that will lead to a cure. Rheumatoid Arthritis Unmasked exposes the true nature of RD revealed in medical research. For about a decade, Kelly O¿Neill Young has studied current and past academic research about RA, reading hundreds of journal articles for this book alone. But Kelly, widely known as the RA Warrior, has also gained a unique perspective by listening to the millions of people who visit her website and social network.¿Patients will learn key dangers to fight to avoid becoming a victim of the RD mortality gap.¿Clinicians will become better at diagnosing and treating RD.¿Friends and family will understand that their loved one with RD has a serious disease.¿Researchers will be more able to conduct impactful and successful investigations of RD.¿Health policy makers and medical payers will be able to properly categorize extra-articular RD.Rheumatoid Arthritis Unmasked is more than a gripping account of the dangers of RD - it is a path for change. This book equips all RA warriors to guide their own medical care and safeguard their health. This book will arm you with facts that will save lives.

"A well-written and comprehensive book that will be a valuable resource for patients with rheumatoid arthritis who are highly motivated to learn more about their disease."--Amazon.com.

*Revised* 12/18 I wrote this book for people newly diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis or anyone that is battling chronic disease. I want to share a lot of the challenges of living with RA from a REAL patient's perspective. RA is a very serious disease and after only two years of developing this disease, I was unable to work. I have been living with RA for the last seven years.I want to share the difficulty I experienced transitioning from being an independent working adult, to becoming fully disabled. Living with chronic disease is not easy, but you can recover and get your life back. I felt it was necessary to share my struggle and the steps I took to recover. I want you to know you are not alone although family, friends, and even doctors can sometimes misunderstand you. Living with RA is a lifelong journey and it will take a lot of patience, courage, and faith to recover. I hope to inspire you to become a warrior, conquer RA, and fight for your health.

Affecting tens of millions of people, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid disease, including rheumatoid arthritis, is treatable and curable. This book describes what's wrong with traditional arthritis treatments, and details many successful treatments used by hundreds of doctors. It contains true case histories of successes that have cured both Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Disease, including Rheumatoid Arthritis. It also includes short case histories based on interviews of both doctors and patients. We know that it will be many years before you discover another book that covers the subject of arthritis and treatments as completely as does this book which will set the standard for treatments for years to come! It is so important it has even been translated into Japanese because, as we were told "there's nothing like it in Japan!!" Hey, there's nothing else like it in America or Europe or elsewhere, either!! 140,892 Words