Just when I thought that an important aspect of my life has been sorted out, my body has gone berserk. Fatigue, body pain, and swollen joints became a part of my daily life along with pain and inflammation pills. Weight loss worried me. Then 2022 came and what I am experiencing finally has a name. Rheumatoid arthritis or RA . Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder and an autoimmune disease which means that the immune system attacks healthy cells in the body causing inflammation (painful swelling) in the affected areas of the body. Rheumatoid arthritis attacks the joints. There's no cure for RA. However, physiotherapy and medication can help slow the disease progression. The latter is called anti-rheumatic drugs. Reading thru the link my doctor gave me, RA could be caused by many factors such as stress and is hereditary. I am not good at handling stress. It seems that I wallow in it. Coupled with over/nonsense thinking my body gave up and little by little s