My Journey with Rheumatoid Arthritis Whenever I look back and try to remember when my symptoms started, I can’t help but wonder if all that severe joint pain as a child was more than just growing pains. Maybe the severe fatigue and migraines all through high school were not normal and maybe all those times I got sick in college was more than just stress related. It wasn’t until losing three pregnancies and experiencing four years of extreme suffering that I was finally diagnosed with three autoimmune diseases, one of those being Rheumatoid Arthritis. I was official diagnosed in 2012. I was on my sixth pregnancy and feeling sick all the time. My sister was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis a few months prior to me being diagnosed, so I had already googled everything I could and knew a little bit about what it meant. The initial diagnosis was a relief on top of extreme sadness. I say it was a relief because being sick for so long and not knowing what was causing it, was fru