Worse, it is an injury that isn't really an injury.  I get tendinitis in my wrist.  I keep a neoprene wrist band in my desk drawer in case I get aches at work.  When I wear it, yup 'oh do you have carpel tunnel?'  'what did you do?'  (breathed).  I typically wear a wrist brace at night when I sleep because I discovered that I twist my hand all weird and that seems to cause the pain.  (and the cat won't sleep around my wrist as is pictured above.  She is however adept at laying on the owie region in my hip/butt area.  Nothing like applied kitty heat).  

My sympathies at dealing with nosy questions today.

Yep...so annoying. With my RA, my joints obviously hurt a lot. I've found wearing braces when it gets back seems to help a bit. So at any given time I could be wearing braces on my ankles, wrists, elbows, knees. People look at me weird and a few people have asked "what I did." It's annoying because I'd rather not have to educate everyone on what RA is and how it's not the same thing as osteoarthritis. 

38 minutes ago, ClaraOswin said:

Yep...so annoying. With my RA, my joints obviously hurt a lot. I've found wearing braces when it gets back seems to help a bit. So at any given time I could be wearing braces on my ankles, wrists, elbows, knees. People look at me weird and a few people have asked "what I did." It's annoying because I'd rather not have to educate everyone on what RA is and how it's not the same thing as osteoarthritis. 

My mom had RA and she felt the same way.