Arthritis

Aging Gracefully, with a Chronic Disease

Published in Drug Week, May 25th, 2007

For the better part of three decades, Sherrie Kossoudji has endeavored each day to manage the inflammation, chronic pain, tight joints and other types of physical strife caused by rheumatoid arthritis.

“Rheumatoid arthritis affects my life in as many ways as you could possibly imagine, and pretty much at all times,” says Kossoudji. “It is a disease that can be manipulated with medicine, but it doesn’t ever really go away.”

Now 53, Kossoudji is dealing with a new aspect of her chronic disease: sorting out what is a normal part of aging, and what is a facet of rheumatoid arthritis, or RA. If she has a sore leg, a pain in her elbow or a kink in her...

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Source: Drug Week (2007-05-25)

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