Arthritis (young people)

David: It started off with some neck pain, actually, and started to get really stiff, but I just thought it was growing pains whatever, so I just ignored it. And then a couple of months later from that, it started to move so it included the neck, it also moved to the bottom of the spine. I would get quite stiff and over time, hands and feet, and it was that point I realized that it's not really normal for growing pains.

Kerrie: I woke up one morning with swollen fingers, painful to move, and this general flu like feeling again which I thought was just a cold really.

Jazmin: Methotrexate – it's not my fondest memory taking that every week because it makes you puke it back up - I did not enjoy that at all.

Charlotte Z: In the hydro pool - it's basically a huge pool that's heated, so it's like a massive bath, really warm bath. So because it's warm, it's nice on our joints and because it's in the water, it takes the impact off and it's easier to move our joints there.

Elizabeth: ‘Cos I remember in year 8 we went to London Zoo and I wasn’t good, and I got, had to get a mobility scooter. And that is so embarrassing if you’re like 12 and you’re on a mobility scooter. But you know my friends just saw it as a ride and it was just fun you know. There, I was driving it, they’re sitting on the back, they’re falling off. So it’s, it can be embarrassing but if your friends are there then they make it funny.

Joseph: Obviously they're going to start eventually taking me off all my medication that when you do, you could relapse. I suppose that's my only worries, but I try to keep positive and look at where I am now and where I was before, and just keep positive and hope that everything keeps moving in the right way.