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Old Feb 17, 2007, 01:16 AM
bryan239 bryan239 is offline
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Member Since: Feb 2007
Location: New York
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Thank you for all of your advice. I do work threw my pain every day. I work construction and put in 60+hrs a week to make my ends meet. Alot of people have said well its your job that is making the pain worse...I dont really believe that. I have taken a month off of work and just relaxed and didnt really do much of anything...just tried to enjoy my time off. From my month off I didnt feel any better or any worse...pain in some places went away while pain in others poped up. I do have a high tolerance to pain as well. Over the past month the pain has been getting worse, I feel as if my whole body is swelling, getting horrible headachs and while that is going on I notice that my teeth and jaw are hurting...reason being is that I find my self gritting my teeth threw out the day because of the pain. I did find that zoning the pain away works...but only when im home not doing much, its hard to do that on a construction site....you have to be awear whats going on around you. I guess my biggest problem is not knowing exactly whats wrong with me. The doctors say I do have symptoms of RA but I have alot of other ones that do not follow RA. For about 5 years I have been tested for everything they could possibly think of and nothing. I guess my main problem is my age. I feel like my life is coming to a end fast...where I seem like I cant do alot of things a normal 23 year old could do. I just wonder if there is anyone out there my age with a similar problem?