Living

One day I was working away at my new job and I felt my eyes begin to sting and feel like something was stuck in them. I blinked and blinked and...

You may have seen that commercial with the lady that holds up the fake smiling face for pictures while her real face appears sad and distraught. She looks so alone...

Now that my pain from psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis, and fibromyalgia is so well managed, I am doing more than I have ever done throughout my chronic life. In fact I...

Those who have never experienced living with a long-term illness have no clue how expensive it is to live with an illness that will last a lifetime. It doesn’t matter...

I just want to say, don't settle for an “I think”. I’m so tired of doctors saying I think, we're not sure, let’s do more tests. We are living in...

Summer is approaching and for many of us that means family vacations and trips with friends. Traveling with psoriatic disease can call for some unique challenges. Traveling can be difficult...

I roll over and the bright red lights on my alarm clock look mockingly back. Yes, it’s 2 am. Yes, I’m still awake. Again. Every muscle and joint in my...

Constant pain can make it hard to think straight. Reason and logic are hard to come by when my thoughts are constantly interrupted by pain, fatigue, and brain fog. It...

Chances are you've seen Psoriatic-Arthritis.com contributor Sean Rodman around the community. In honor of #ArthritisAwarenessMonth and #PsoriaticActionMonth, we sat down to chat with Sean and feature him in our Member...

It didn’t take long for psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis, and fibromyalgia to alter my life. In addition to having to change how I did things, how often I did them, and...

It can be very hard to know for sure if you will ever feel better. The cycle of ups and downs, good days and bad days with psoriatic arthritis tends...

Having made it through a few years of college, I know I'm smart. Yet, there are many days where brain fog makes me question my IQ. One day I can...

It is only human to look for similarities and differences in situations. Even my children, from a very young age, began to compare and contrast old information with new. They...

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Are you in desperate need of a good night's sleep? Fatigue got you down? Weighted blankets are the latest complementary treatment to help with insomnia and fatigue. In celebration of...

Yes, even though I have mild psoriatic arthritis - I still experience fatigue. Some people assume because I have mild psoriatic arthritis, that I don't experience the fatigue that often...

Throughout my entire chronic life, friends and family have often said “Get well soon” or “I hope you feel better”. There was a time when hearing either sentiment made me...

I was sitting at the pharmacy the other day, where it seems I spend 90% of my time and money these days, waiting on yet another prescription to be filled...

When I first learned I had psoriasis I was in my early 20s and I didn’t think much of it. I had a small, scaly patch of skin behind my...

How much extra weight do we tote around? I don’t want to think about it anymore. I lose, I gain. At some point I came to the conclusion that I...