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Mike, You are a walking talking library my man - thank you. I've trolled this website off and on for the last couple of years but I can see now that action, not lurking would have been the best approach. I think the oral steriods didn't help the diabetes but the truth of the matter is that the sugar...

Mike, Thanks for the wealth of information. I think everyone was a bit surprised when the test for sjogrens came back negative. Are you saying that that might change over time? My eyes were so dry that I'd wake up constantly because of the pain. I started taking sleep meds becuase that was the only ...

Mike, My apologies up front - worlds longest post follows. ANA positive, speckled pattern but negative for everything else and they ran it all, mostly because of the JRA and Hashimoto's disease. Originally I was being seen by an opthamologist outside of Boston - I live out in the deep burbs and he w...

All, I have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis when I was a child - I am now in my late 40's. The disease went into remission in my late teens and didn't return until a couple of years ago. As a child I was RF postive and did NOT have eye disease but had moderate joint disease. I didn't walk for about a ...