The abstract is a short presentation of how the subject is to be treated and it contains the main elements of the aforementioned lecture with the key messages to be shared with the delegates and participants.

I have been diagnosed with the RA - rheumatoid arthritis disease in April 2004 and since then I had to cope with different symptoms and to follow different treatments within the hospital and at home.

The following main aspects will be treated within the lecture:

Environmental and working conditions, main and collateral symptoms before the RA manifested.

The main findings, the diagnostic and the very first approach to treatment.

Different symptoms and different treatment approaches.

Biologic treatments in my case: type, symptoms, efficacy.

How Rheumatoid Arthritis affected my life during the last 10 years?

Conclusions & Key messages to be shared with the delegates and participants

Disclosure of Interest M. Dobrin Consultant for: Romanian EULAR League

DOI 10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-eular.6125