Diane T

Growing older with psoriatic arthritis can mean many different things. A few things that come to mind are access to health care and disease progression. My birthday was in February...

I started experiencing psoriatic arthritis symptoms when I was in my early twenties. Like so many people who live with PsA, it took decades before I got the correct diagnosis...

It all started when I was 5 years old. My whole body was covered with flakes. I was scaly. I had itchy spots that were alarming and uncomfortable. When I...

Are you going through excessive joint pain and swelling because of psoriatic arthritis? Well, let’s get up and water walk. Like all water exercises, water walking is easy on the...

I am 63 years old. I'm a proud wife, mother, grandmother, great aunt, niece, and cousin. I have held many titles over the years. I suffer from psoriasis and psoriasis...

I lived with psoriatic arthritis for over 25 years before getting a proper diagnosis. This delay caused me to have a deformed finger and excruciating pain in my whole body...

My mother has told me that as a young child, my teacher sent a note home about my swollen fingers and how it was affecting my writing. I was already...

Never say, "Can it get any worse?" I started having symptoms of psoriatic arthritis as a child. My symptoms worsened at age 25. I finally received a diagnosis at age...

Psoriatic arthritis can cause a number of symptoms around the body. People will often have two or more of these symptoms, and they can range from mild to severe. One...

If not working from home, some of us still work in an office. We find ourselves confined to our desks for a large portion of each weekday. For those living...

When Oscar, a thirty-six-year-old dedicated army officer could not keep up with his fellow trainees, he realized that something was wrong. Training as an army officer in 2012, he wasn't...

"You have a personal choice in your life. It’s your fault when you don’t set goals for your health. It’s your choice." These are just a few statements I have...

There are so many people in the United States who can’t afford medical care. Sometimes we have good insurance, but then the high deductible gets in the way, which causes...

Psoriatic arthritis causes the body’s immune system to attack itself. The bad part for us is that it even attacks our healthy tissues. My body has been attacking itself for over...

When I was in my 20's, this question was constantly at the back of my mind. Will my illness worsen as I grow older? That was what my father had...

I have had psoriatic arthritis for over thirty-five years. It took me twenty-five years to get the proper diagnosis. Most patients with a chronic ailment go through a lot of...

First off, do you know what an x-ray is? This is something that has been around for years. X-rays look inside the body without having a doctor cut you. So...

My main goal in writing this journal is to keep a documented record of my thoughts, feelings, mood and pain associated with my disease. 7:00 AM: I just woke up...

Sometimes it could be a sharp pain in my knee that would wake me in the middle of the night. Most of the time, it starts the moment I first...

Joining a community can be very helpful to us especially if you are from a group or an area that has come together because you share a common interest. Being...