Services for people with rheumatoid arthritis

 

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SPEAKER 1:

Rheumatoid arthritis is a very specific type of auto-immune disease that can happen to anybody at any age and that it has a huge impact on every day life, not just physically but psychologically and socially and it hasn’t just impacted on me; it’s impacted on my family, friends, colleagues at work.

 

SPEAKER 2:

I experience a lot of pain and I don't know who to turn to and when you’re in pain all you want to do is just to get some sort of help.

 

SPEAKER 3:

I think people need to understand that it’s a serious illness and it affects people of all ages and it is not the same as osteo-arthritis and people often get it confused; they don’t hear the ‘rheumatoid, they just hear ‘arthritis’ and assume it’s not very serious and it’s not really going to make a huge impact on your life (but it does).

 

SPEAKER 4:

I would like anybody watching this DVD to really try to understand what an impact RA has on your life. It’s difficult to think that in 10 years’ time I might be in a wheelchair. It’s just an on-going disease that you don’t know how you’re going to end up. It has such an impact on your family as well; there is nothing normal about our lives any more and I would like them to really think that there are some people in this life that can’t even lift the duvet over themselves when they’re really ill and it’s difficult to understand that lack of strength and I think they should see that everybody deserves to have a good, caring health team behind them but that is not the case (as I know myself).

 

SPEAKER 5:

It has a real impact on your ability to work and your ability to contribute to society and that’s something I want to do very actively and for me that therefore means I should get the support that I need to be able to do that and be active in society.

 

 

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