Sometimes a little anger can go a long way. I deal with the same things with my pain. Unfortunately I'm only 36 years old so everyone thinks I'm too young to have such horrible pain but I do. I have a blown out back (2 discs) and I don't have RA but I have psoriatic arthritis. Combine that with the fact that I'm probably about 100lbs overweight and it's pretty excruciating at times. I'm hoping for more free time coming up here next month so I can start going to the gym again to get some exercise that I can tolerate without too much pain. Good luck.