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I have Rheumatoid Arthritis, (among all of the other things that are wrong with me)  but RA is an autoimmune disease that primarily affects the joints.
An autoimmune disease is defined as a disease that can not distinguish healthy bodily tissues from harmful foreign substances.
Rheumatoid Arthritis is an inflammatory disease that is capable of producing systemic problems (when the disease affects organs of the body).
Your immune system, a little science/medical info for you, is your body's way of protecting itself, of fighting off illnesses and other things which are foreign to your body, so that you can get back to being healthy.
Your immune system is supposed to help you, not hurt you.
With RA, the immune system is attacking healthy tissues and joints throughout the entire body.
When your immune system is already fighting and battling off the healthy tissues that your body thinks are foreign enemies, there's not much left over to take care of any real things that get into your body and make you sick. 

My joints ache all of the time, they get worse when the weather changes, rain or cold, and then it's just a daily battle to try and keep the pain away long enough to do all of the things that you need to do.
I take vitamins and supplements every single day to try and help my immune system fight off everything that it needs to fight off, so that I can try to be somewhat healthy and not in miserable illness all of the time.
I take a cal/mag/zinc supplement, a multivitamin, and an antioxidant every single day, but I wonder if taking a much stronger vitamin, like prenatal vitamins, would be even more beneficial to someone like me.
Prenatal vitamins have like all of the best stuff in them, they have the best of everything in them, and more of it.
I'm not pregnant nor do I want to ever have another baby, and even though it's been a long time since I was pregnant, I do recall that I felt the healthiest when I was pregnant and taking prenatal vitamins every day.
My hair was awesome, my skin was looking great, not a single blemish, my nails were long and strong, and I just felt terrific, so maybe taking a prenatal now would help me.

It's just a thought, something I thought about tonight while I sit here feeling miserable once again. 

I am still losing my hair.
Every single day when I brush it, wet or dry, my hair is still falling out in clumps, huge clumps just coming out in my brush, falling out on the floor, falling out when I shampoo it, just falling out.
I know it's not because of taking any weight loss pills, because I haven't taken any of them since before my neck surgery, so I honestly cannot figure out why.
I haven't asked my doc yet because my appointment on the 9th got rescheduled to the 24th because I didn't have a ride, so I'll have to talk to him about it then.

So for now, I'm stepping back up my supplement intake.
I'm taking a multivitamin once a day, I'm taking an extra B vitamin, and I'm also ramping back up my cal/mag/zinc + vitamin D intake to 4 times per day.
I need to take that anyway for good bone growth, my vertebrae need to fuse nice and solid so that I can have the revision surgery, heal up a bit more, but taking that one also helps with hair health.
 
"Research supports the fact that it may never be too late to supplement with calcium, especially in the elderly.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that calcium and Vitamin D supplementation not only slowed bone loss, but also helped maintain optimum bone mass in women over the age 69.
From a cosmetic standpoint, there is anecdotal evidence from hair salons, day spas and other cosmetic venues that report this Cal Mag Zinc formula has been instrumental in helping to strengthen hair and nails."

I've taken cal/mag/zinc + vitamin D for years now, and that may be the #1 reason that my hair and nails always grow long and very quickly.
People always ask me how I get my nails to grow so long and hard, and i always tell them that it's because of the supplements I take, so with my hair falling out the way it has been since the surgery, I really need to get back up to taking it at the maximum dosage that my body can handle.
Too much of it, and you end up with stomach issues, the body doesn't digest what it can't use, so they come back out. haha
But I cannot stand losing my hair like this, it's so thin these days, every brushing or combing, and it just falls out, I lost enough in this morning's brushing to make a wig for a small child.
It's awful.
I sat on the couch this morning brushing my hair and crying.
It's awful.