Hi I've only posted here a few times but have also found this site to be one of the best for getting questions answered. I was dx. with psoratic arthritis, psoratic spondolitis and psoratic spondoarmyopathy to be exact, with a side of bone marrow edema in my hips. Nuclear bone scan showed arthritis in feet, ankles,hips,shoulders elbows wrists and hands. MRI should narrowing and inflamation in s.i. joints. I do have psorisis on my hands and feet only and it's not that bad usually, but the last few mths the arthritis has left me having a pretty hard time. Rhume put me on vioxx and methotrexate right away, he said if you are in a flare for more than six weeks this is standard proceedure, at the time I had been in bad shape for about 6 or 7 mths unchecked while all the other specilists tried to figure out what was going on. I did lots of reading and figured I either had psoratic or AS. the symtoms are so close in regards to the hips lower and upper spine problems. I do not get sausage like fingers or toes as is common with psoratic but my hands and feet are the two place that are never painfree, in 4 mths I find I now am having trouble picking up and holding a glass.This is moving so fast through my joints, places that didn't bother me 6 mths ago now are causing me major grief. Heres hoping the rhume is correct about the mehtotrexate shutting down the autoimmune system and getting this to slow down, I hate to think where I'll be in 6 more mths.Do any of you have problems with inflamation around any organs? Rhume says this is a problem with my kidneys and is possibly the cause of my high bp. average day it's around 145 to 150 over 90 to 95.
I see a dermatoigest and he started me on a steroid cream for my hands and feet don't know if it helps yet and gp gave me steroid drops for my eyes, what I always took for alergies is inflamation of the iris. I'm still not sure which type this is psoratic beacause of my hands and feet or AS beacause of my hips and the narrowing of the si joints and the problems in my spine neck and shoulders.Any opinions?
Rick
