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Feb 17 16 7:32 AM

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Hi,

I decided to wing this post a bit by only adding my thoughts on the state of the art with autoimmune disease. Let me back up a bit, by saying I see several doctors for autoimmune health issues. I chat with many patients in the varied doctor offices waiting areas. I am dumbfounded by how little most people know about the disease they have! Why is this, I ask myself? and the only answer I can come up with, is people in general are not interested in what is wrong with them and only want doctors to "fix" them, without them being proactive in their own condition. On the other hand, I find a few people, that really want to "beat" their disease and are very proactive. It has been my observation, that most people that just allow doctors to "treat them" and resign themselves to whatever their doctor is doing, whether it works or not. I also see a few people that have great knowledge on their disease and do much research to "help" their doctor and themselves to a better life. My question is: Which are you? I come to the conclusion, that people that read these forums are interested in helping themselves and thereby giving themselves the best chance to feel as well as possible with their disease. I am glad you come to read here and hopefully it will help you, but without your input, I am not getting the benefit that you are getting here. If we worked together, by posting, we could all gain power over our diseases. Take a chance and add your information gained by your experience and pass it along. You might find it helps you more than you ever realized.

Great advances in identifying and fighting autoimmune diseases are coming more quickly than ever. There is so much information to digest, that one person can not deal with it all, but many people adding to a growing forum, could get concentrated quality information and maybe even find information to help each other.

Why not give it a try?

Itsme Wayne ... RA, Sjogren's, Raynaud's, Type 1 diabetes, Asthma, Allergies, Fibromyalgia ... cancer survivor since 2004