Rheumatoid arthritis isn't your grandmother's arthritis
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For Stacy Courtnay, it all started with her stilettos. When she began experiencing intense foot pain twenty years ago, she attributed it to frequently wearing the towering, skinny-heeled shoes.
"I bought all new shoes, and I was wearing flats. Nothing was getting better," she remembers. "It truly was like ice picks or like somebody beating my feet."
It was a podiatrist who first mentioned rheumatoid arthritis, but she brushed it off, assuming she was too young for such a diagnosis. But the pain soon spread to her shoulders and wrists, and within months, the 23-year-old newlywed was relying on her husband to carry her and assist with simple tasks like brushing her hair and drinking from a cup.
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