trivial post #8
I have an idiopathic autoimmune disorder called rheumatoid arthritis, which means that the white blood cells in my joints are attacking each other for no apparent reason. It started around the beginning of 2012, in my sophomore year. I first noticed it during my PE (which was swimming), when I tried to stretch out my arms and I felt a pain in my elbows. It got progressively worse though, and it affected other joints as well. My knees, my ankles, even my knuckles and fingers. They would ache in random combinations (sometimes it was my ankles + knees, sometimes knuckles + elbows + shoulders), never really simultaneously (thank God). It was usually an ignorable pain, nothing debilitating. Thinking it was manageable, I let it go unchecked for a year. During this time, my elbows started to lock up. They got stiffer and stiffer as the months wore on, up to the point where my arm is constantly bent at a 45-degree angle. I'm still at this point right now. I got the thing diagno...