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Disease duration 21-25 years
Interview 13  

Interview 13

Age at Interview: 42
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 17
Background: Full time surveyor/manager, married with 3 children. Family history of RA.
Brief outline:Diagnosed '78 after various joint pains. Knee synovectomy age 18; then 8 years quite symptom free; since RA in many joints. Some steroid pulses/joint injections. Now Gold injected 50mg/month, Meloxicam 15mg/day & Coproxamol if required. Thumb fusion operation.


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Pain can make him depressed and 'grumpy' at times, which can affect relationships with other people.

 



It certainly can affect the relationship at times when certainly at times you do feel in pain, and you do become grumpy and you do tend to upset people by your behaviour and the things that you say at times purely because of the way that you're feeling, likewise at times certainly not now, but certainly in the process of it all, sort of coming out with the arthritis, there have been times when you've really sort of felt at a loss as to what to do, none of the treatments seem to be working, you can't find that happy medium and you're going round and round in sort of circles and yeah, you do tend to get very, very low and it obviously does have a knock on effect to your partner and the children, too. 

Obviously you do take your anger and your pain out on other people unfortunately at times, but as I say, as luck would have it now we've seemed to have found sort of a medication for me that works and so really that's not too much of a problem. And I know you do at times, you know, you do get that, that time when things are sort of hurting and there's pressures to do things and you tend to snap perhaps and it is really to do with the, the arthritis more than anything else, perhaps in a way. But they tend to realise that as well and do give you a little bit of slack with it all but  yeah it is a problem at times to be fair. 
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