Toothache and jaw complaints are popular complaints. The pain of toothache typically commences all of the sudden and can change from mild soreness to very severe pain.

For some people it is chronic. For others Acid Reflux is only an occasional problem. It matters little which is your situation. When it hits you want a quick fix for heartburn.

It is often said that pain is the body’s way of telling you what you are doing is not healthy. The idea is for you to take notice and stop doing whatever it is that is causing the pain. However, sometimes the pain is due to a disease or illness. In this case, pain acts as an early warning system, telling you something is wrong. But sometimes the pain does not go away. This is sometimes due to irreversible destruction wrought by the cured disease, but more often it is due to a chronic disorder, often one without a currently known cure. Arthritis pain falls into the latter category.

I easily can remember the day that my life shifted into a new kind of normal when I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. At the age of 24, having dealt with a few weeks of swelling in various parts of my body, sometimes to the point of being disabling, my doctor called me at work with the test results. I had a positive rheumatoid factor, she explained, which most likely meant that I had rheumatoid arthritis. Faking confidence, I asked her, “On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being normal, what can I expect my life to be like from here on out?” She did not wish to answer, but after I told her I needed some kind of scale to know what side I was up against, she reluctantly replied, “If you are lucky maybe a six.”