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Welcome to the group! I had my first severe RA attack in 2009 and was diagnosed with Lupus. Prior to that, I was preparing for 10K race and lifting weights for an hour twice a week. What a shock when I could barely walk and my feet were 3 times their normal size. By 2011 my meds (Plaquenil, Celebrex; max doses each) had…
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I don't know why, but my knees hurt from the minute I get on a bike or elliptical trainer until the minute I get off. It seems crazy that I enjoy jogging and it doesn't seem to bother me. I can only do about 5-6 km and then my body is feeling a bit beaten, but I rarely feel stiff the day after. Instead I feel stiff if I…
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I've been jogging again since September, after a year and a half of inactivity due to lupus and RA. I too notice that I often feel stiffer if I don't exercise every day or every second day. Despite what common sense and every trainer I know told me, I feel more pain in my knees when I'm on the elliptical machine and the…
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The Lupus Canada website has information written by specialists for sufferers and one doctor says that if there were such a diet that could cure lupus, he would definitely prescribe it, but according to him, no such diet exists. This confirmed my suspicions of these diets. However, doctors are notorious for not believing…
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Hi, my name is Christie. I was diagnosed with RA in the fall of 2009 and in June of 2010 my rheumatologist confirmed that I have lupus. I have had strange symptoms since 2003 and I always felt like a hypochondriac because the many, many doctors I saw couldn't find anything definitively wrong with me. I had asthma, fluid on…
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Hi, congrats on working out 4 days a week! I found that when I did only cardio, I didn't lose much weight. In fact, you lose more weight and faster if you build muscle because it will increase your metabolism, and muscle, even when you are sitting and doing nothing, burns more calories for you. I started doing a 60 minute…
