I need a bit of advice from those of you with PA. I feel like my body is falling apart. Severe OA in my hips, degenerative disk with constant lower back pain, now my knees are hurting, toes and fingers are swollen, but not around specific joints, just all over. I don't have any redness or heat around my joints, just stiffness, swelling and occasional pain, particularly in my toes. My lower body is sore all the time and when I walk I feel like I am wading in wet cement!
For some time I have had a dry, itcy patch of skin on my areola. I put lotion on it and softens a bit, but comes back. My nails do have vertical ridges on them, but they have for years. Now in the last few days my big toe nail has popped up from the outside edge of the nail bed and appears to be completely detached on that side of the nail!!!! What the heck?
I saw a rheumy a while back who did not feel I had RA. She ran blood work and my RA and sed rates were normal. She felt I just have OA, but now that I'm starting to have other symptoms, I wonder.
Can you shed any light?
What is PA? Sorry I don't know.... :(Psoriatic Arthritis
Hi,
I have PA and although I do not have any nail issues, the fact that I have the mutli-joint problems and a tiny spot of psoriasis, I've been diagnosed with PA.
I started taking humira and it slowly improving.
Hope this helps.
Thanks! I am in the process of going through my GP to get a referral to a rheumatologist. We'll see what happens. My GP had no explanation for the nail problem. You can have next to nothing in the form of psoriasis to have pa. Unfortunately I have both, so not only am I dealing with the joint, muscle tissue damage etc. I have to deal with the lovely looking skin. YUCK!!