Stories

I would like to know if anyone else is dealing with a list of autoimmune diseases or comorbidities, especially Poly-endocrine type 2. How do you cope? I'm feeling like a...

I have had PSA for about 7 years now. My fingers hurt daily. My fingernails have changed and are deformed and have occasionally cuts in joints. My toenails are now...

I bet I'm not the only one who experienced the symptoms of PsA over a number of years but was sent away with no answers from their doc. I first...

I apparently had PSA for years. Finally, when a flare-up on both hands got so bad, I referred myself to an RA doctor. I had been to primary and treated...

I had my first knee replacement 1 week ago, then yesterday I went to see my rheumatologist and he confirmed PsA using bone samples from surgery. Now I am so...

It all started with a white water rafting trip in college. My friend knocked me out of the raft and in my scramble back to my place on my hands...

I’ve been getting out of bed with “that” brain fog that many PsA sufferers claim to have stripped them from their daily lives. It seems to get worse as the...

I feel I need to let people know this...I have been extremely fatigued for years and it was put down to RA/PSA and Fibromyalgia. Over the course of the last...

Hi everyone. I was diagnosed with Psoriatic arthritis 1 year ago. It started in my feet, then my hands, which started spreading up my arms. 1 year down the line...

I was a typical toddler. I loved playing and running around outside. According to my mom (since I was so little) I woke up one morning and couldn’t straighten my...

I was cooking, I heard the fly and recognized it's green shiny, shimmery, back; the big kind. I took an old towel and rolled it up and did a sideways...

I have been suffering for at least 40 years from very bad, chronic, arthritis. Till 15 years ago, I was on Etodolac pills but I was diagnosed with kidney failure...

My journey of treating psoriatic arthritis has been long but has also been a successful one. I went through two years of methotrexate treatment. It lessened the severity of the...

About a month ago, I was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis. I have seen my family doctor for a while for symptoms that didn't last long and pains that could be...

Hello, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2012 and psoriasis in 2014. My rheumatologist has said I don't have psoriatic arthritis YET, (thank you very much). I'm not convinced. I...

Hi, I was diagnosed with PsA 3 weeks ago. Just started cosentyx. This comes as quite a shock since I previously was diagnosed with RA. My story started 7 years...

Hi. I suffer from Psoriatic Arthritis and Fybromyalgia. A horrible combination. My days are spent trying to control the pain I have. Started using CDB oil. I have used it...

Hello. My name is Stephanie and I’m 29. I’m a mother and a girlfriend to my boyfriend of 6 years! I had a normal healthy life growing up till I...

So my rheumatologist knows how much I don't want to be put on a biologic because of the high risk of having another abdominal surgery. I've already experienced complications in...

I’m 43 and about a month ago was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis. Nearly all my joints are in constant pain all the time. I went from being a semi-active individual...