I called this roughly 6 months after I was diagnosed. It’s only . The can only take so much of your attacking itself, and in short, it does one hell of a job destroying itself. Not to mention the drugs and the stress of the pain that you have to deal with. It all adds up (see below). I have been saying all along, my has been shortened. People have been telling me “oh no, I know people who take and are still alive in their 80′ or 90′s”. Well, I am not going to be one of the that make it that long. Although this is some fucked up depressing news, it only confirms what I already knew.

#7 – “People with rheumatoid have an increased risk of or compared to the general population.”

Older suggests that people with may live 10-15 years less than their healthy . is influenced by many factors though, including , overall health, and . The newest class of , referred to as biologics, hopefully will offer a better .

# Rheumatoid Arthritis Shortens Life Expectancy
# The Correlation of Life Expectancy and Arthritis
# The Effect of Rheumatoid Arthritis on Mortality

Pulled from:
http://arthritis.about.com/od/rheumatoidarthritis/a/rheumatoid_fact.htm

-Ruger