Post tx issues

[chevyelcam79]

I successfully had treatment approx 7 years ago.  Seems that things have gone downhill lately.  I have terrible hip pain that just wont go away.  Have gone to therapy, took round of Doxycycline (had lymes couple years ago) doc gave me that in case it was lyme symptoms rearing their ugly head, just had hip and lumbar MRI (shows nothing to cause hip pain), some bloodwork ANA (negative) C protein (negative) and am currently awaiting one more blood test result.  I do have psoriasis on my elbows and doc is leaning toward psoriatic arthritis....  I have a rheumatologist appt at the end of the month. Just really want to know why they hurt so bad.

Anyone had issues like this post tx?

Thanks,
Shari

[ActingBrandNew]

Hi Shari,

It very well could be psoriatic arthritis. I was DX with psoriatic arthritis myself by my rheuma. Psoriatic arthritis can effect one or many joints. Can present with or without psoriasis. My Rheuma told me that there are no tests for it and its strictly DX on symptom presentation. He did , however, say that sometimes people with PsA will have very low grade anemia and have high uric acid. I had psoriasis during TX but it went away. My joint pain had mostly gone away but has come back now. I see my Rheuma in a few weeks. There is a new drug that just came out for PsA in March called Otezla. From my brief research it seems to be somewhat safer than the biologics and methotrexate. Its funny because my doc put me on a round of Doxy too. Im on a 30 day round right now to "rule out" other things.

[otterwatcher]

yes joint pain since treatment 8 years ago-have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia/post interferon syndrome. the psoriasis on my elbow has finally gone since eliminating gluten from my diet.