Sound more like RA than Raynauds? Usually i get more cold feelling with the raynauds. I mean if they get real cold i know they will sweat when they warm up but they would still feel cold. The pads hurt and the fingers hurt. And the finger tips are swelling.Milly - all I know is that I got my 6-month questionaire from the National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases that buckeye promotes, and one of the questions was if I had fluid-filled blisters, exactly what has developed the past few weeks. Kinda freaked me out to see it as a question as I haven't heard of this symptom before.
It could be PA . I get the red hot swollen finger tips with psoriatic arthritis and you can with other spondy type arthritis'
spondyloarthropathy, thats the word I was thinking of.I have wondered about PA a few times. I am a strange one. I get AI inside and out. My muscles swell also. But it took me so long to get the docs to listen then a three and a half month wait to see the specialist and i was not flaring when i went to RD. I quit flaring about ten days prior. So you lay all this on them when your not flaring and well they tend to think your exagerating. I think he believed me but ? Thats why i told my doc to tell him about the Raynauds. In the hieght of my last flare i had an abcessed tooth and a bone infection and they can cause a great deal of strange things to happen to your body as well. Come and go rashes and redness. So i had to discount alot of my symptoms. Then i had an allergic reaction to the Arava so again i had to discount alot of my symptems. I am not to stressed over it just curious. I get swelling and fluid in my muscles as well as in my joints so i am not the run of the mill RA girl. I am all excited about the ENT visit. It won't fix my hands of course. But i may get an answer as to AI inner ear or do i just need tubes in my ears. Probably both. I don't care which just fix it. My hands i have resolved to the aspect that they will not ever be the same. As even when there is no Raynauds no swelling no pain the skin is darker on the hands and wrist then the rest of my body. But when they flare up good they are a bright red and swollen with fissures and inflamed areas. It is when they are not swollen i tend to think scleroderma because of the tint of my skin. When they are swollen even my regular doc was like wow but who knows. I mean bad enough for presciption fishoil, vitamin E vitamin C, and lotions.