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Does anyone know if there is a definitive way to distinguish between non radiographic AS and reactive arthritis? It seems like the two have several common symptoms.
Are your labs all negative? Mine are except hlab27. My sed rate and c reactive protein levels are low
Good for you! Always be proud of standing firm and getting answers. That “fibromyalgia “ diagnosis is what they stuck me with too!! Three years later I got my answers.
My hands are awful, now have permanent damage from untreated psoriatic arthritis
Does anyone else have more than one autoimmune disease? I was diagnosed with a second one this summer, and it feels like my fatigue has doubled.
@A MySpondylitisTeam Member. Do you have any medical journal reports or scientific info on how dercums is tied to being one of the symptoms or co-occurring diseases of AS? This is new news to my… read more
It took 9 months, a lot of tests, and a 12 day hospital stay to rule out everything else for me. I have it in my peripheral joints so not as simple to diagnose
The second one comes from age disease, the first one comes from systemic and genetic disease. I'm not sure but I think you might be lucky to have the one that is age related.
Works for well, great suggestion.
I, having been an anesthesia & part-time pain provider before afflicted and had left the region; that, when I visit my adult children who purchased two ranches in Silver City; that, upon visits, I get… read more
I started having some numbness and tingling in my right shoulder, down the arm and into the hand. This is 2nd time in a week it has happened. I can still move it, still feel like normal, no pain, no other symptoms (other than panic/anxiety thinking it might be a stroke) I mentioned it to my rheumatologist when i saw her last week and she said its probably a nerve as the other time happened when i was driving for a couple of hours..
Has something like this happened to anyone else?
Yes , my neck surgery helped a lot . I don’t get the numbness as bad when I drive long distance .
The article mentions that one of the symptoms is sometimes psoriasis, in addition to other common psoriatic arthritis symptoms such as heel pain and IBD etc. Wouldn't the correct diagnosis then be Psoriatic Spondylitis? Whats the difference when there is no evident fusion? Do treatments between the two differ?
@A MySpondylitisTeam Member. Yeah, that osteophyte wasn't in this latest MRI either. It was an xray a year ago that reported it on L3. I do have 3 bulging discs and a cyst though inside the vertebra… read more
