Hi everyone. I'm in my 20s and was recently diagnosed with PTSD and with rheumatoid arthritis. 2016 was the worst year of my life and I had to relive a lot of the terror and anxiety and loss of control that I felt when I was abused as a child. I have a few family members with RA (the onset for them was much later than for me) but this stress apparently triggered it. I have previously managed my stress enough but with too many bad things happening at once, I began to have extreme anxiety, depression, and panic attacks. I was looking for information on this and found that recent research links an increase in PTSD symptoms to higher risk of developing RA in women. http://www.medpagetoday.com/Rheumatology/Arthritis/55450
If anyone else comes across information like this please share.
If anyone else comes across information like this please share.
