My hospital appointment today was lengthy but a relief, this is mainly for me to look back at, but feel free to read on
My Dr R said she thinks my symptoms (raised ANA levels, swollen joints, pain in joints, extreme tiredness) aren’t lupus and probably not RA, as I have no calcification or erosions. I had a raft of tests, mobility, bloods, xrays the lot :oS
I have a cracking great bruise, it was a bleeder oh boy!
I’m not a very good patient though, I don’t really ‘feel’ pain, an example being I broke my arm and walked around for 2 weeks with no cast after completing all tests that should have determined that I did in fact have a broken arm, as if there wasn’t a break and a greenstick fracture!
My current situation is a constant ache in my hands and feet (all pulses and nerve tests fine) which sometimes I get in my knees, elbows, shoulders and hips. It’s not agony, at times its bloody uncomfortable, and it’s wearing, it feels sometimes like the ends of my bones are rubbing together and at 29 I object to having ‘cankles’ when it’s flared up. I am really tired alot of the time, but when I try to sleep at might I can’t go figure. I seriously doubt my sanity sometimes…
I just don’t know what to do, I know I am not nuts, I know that I need to take anti-inflammatories sometime for it (which help) So I suppose it’s something inflammatory…
but what if the bloods are all clear? what then? Am I nuts…
Thats the hamster wheel that is my brain, on the one hand I am relived on the other I am still worried, eeek you could drive yourself mental eh?