Do you live with any other health conditions in addition to your PsA?
Many in the PsA community seem to live with multiple health conditions, especially since autoimmune conditions seem to "collect." I think one of the most obvious being psoriasis since up to 30% of people living with psoriasis may develop PsA.
Are you living with other health conditions? Which ones? Did you get diagnosed with them before or after your PsA diagnosis? Have they impacted your PsA management plan? Would love to learn more about your experiences!
I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, depression, degenerative disc disease, osteoarthritis, glucose intolerance, high blood pressure. Another autoimmune problem they are still trying to figure out.
-fibri, depression, anxiety, osteoarthritis, diet is wheat free, dairy free, and soy frrrr That’s me. Same exact diet. Ulcerated Colitis. Osteoporosis, Spinal Stenosis, neuropathy of feet. Have the worst time finding ( all expensive) shoes. Many people are wearing what I bought but couldn’t use. Ortho on line has shoes that I am wearing now. They are the best. Clarks sandals are good for my Very High bone on top of one foot. Tendinitis, fasciitis, psoriasis. High blood pressure. Stye’s in my eyes. Okay more but not printing..
They (4 docs) have been giving me all kinds of meds bit I don't feel any different. I would love to quit everything but if I feel this bad on meds how bad would it be without??
omgoodness i feel like this right now. I agree. I am trying to stop meditating. But, after a few hours I know I can’t.
Autoimmune Diseases often travel in packs. If you have one you might just have another. Diagnosed with P at 30 (though i'd had it on my scalp and a bit on my face since my teens), PsA at 36. Since then, Sicca/ likely Sjogren's though the test results are borderline-the symptoms are all there-Ugh, chronically dry eye, dry everything stomach ulcers, vision issues. Fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, stenosis, rosacea (my facial skin burns regularly), hidranetis supportiva and prediabetes. Its a 3 ring circus. It took years but I take most days as they come. I've been through numerous biologics until they stop working. There's always another to try. In the mean time, I take the best possible care of myself, exercise as much as I can, eat right and go for acupuncture weekly. Doing the best I can. Pain? medical Marijuana
Marijuana does help with pain and sleeping. Trying to get safe medical Marijuana. I wouldn't make it through the end of the day without medical cannabis.
I have been diagnosed with at least three autoimmune diseases. First was osteoarthritis in my right thumb joint in 1986, which now I’m unsure if that is really what that was. In 1994 I had my first neck fusion surgery to remove an osteophyte from spinal arthritis. Also in 1994 & 1997 I had carpal tunnel release surgery on both hands. 1998 left thumb/wrist arthroscopy cutting out the joint & replacing it with a tendon from my arm fashioned into a joint. Again in 2003 in the right hand arthroscopy surgery. My second spinal fusion surgery for osteophyte removal in 1998. I was diagnosed with Psoriasis in 2010 or so and Psoriatic Arthritis in 2012 and had third cervical fusion surgery in 2014. I have finger joint pain in both hands. Have had trigger finger injection once. Now I have Keinbock’s disease in my right wrist diagnosed this year. Is it from PSA? I will need surgery to fuse the wrist to relieve pain. osteoarthritis isn't an autoimmune disease no it’s not but it doesn’t help with the autoimmune diseases.
