Living with Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, AKA Still’s Disease

While AK’s peers were shopping for prom dresses and applying to college, she spent senior year self-advocating and undergoing hospitalizations. AK had been diagnosed with juvenile arthritis at 12 years old after experiencing jaw and ankle pain. Subsequently, the flares became increasingly systemic with daily spiking fevers. AK shares how Read more…

How Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis Became Andrea’s Path to Empowerment

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis refers to an onset of autoimmune arthritis at a young age, which happened to Andrea when she was just 10 years old. She had been experiencing severe TMJ, wrist and knee pain, but doctors did not realize she had juvenile RA throughout her childhood. She was finally Read more…