hi all, thanks for your responses :-)

>> I do not get sausage like fingers or toes as is common with psoratic

oh thats interesting ! I had those sausage digits just around the time I had my first attack of iritis (eye inflammation), I had only had AS for a little while at that time. I did not know they were related to psoriatic arthritis !

I am not sure whether I have psoriasis though. My skin problem clears up when I put diprosone on it, hence nothing much to show the doc (diprosone is a bit like prednisone). I was told psoriasis doesn't clear up so easily with diprosone cream (if at all).. so my skin problem is probably not psoriasis. I did have it diagnosed many years ago, so I really should go and retreive the old records..

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