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My brother has had both of his knees, sacroileac joints and his shoulders injected with the new synovial fluid replenishment injections. He say his doctor really knows his stuff. My brother had spinal fusion by age 40 due to degenerative disk, degenerative joint and spinal stenosis. His blood test for HLA-B27 came back okay. How can he be this eat up with arthritis for years, and have inflammatory ulcerative colitis and not have enteropathic or ankylosing spondylitis?

February 17, 2023
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According to the research I have done there is a percentage of people with B27 that don't actually get AS, but with as much arthritis as he has had I think he should see about seeing a different rheumatologist. At what age did his symptoms start?

February 18, 2023
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I seem to recall he was in his late 30's when he had a surgery to fuse two of his lumbar vertebrae. I think his other joints probably started up about that time, but came on gradually.

March 6, 2023

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