My symptoms are as follows and tend to flare during the colder months
-Joint pain affecting both sides in hips, elbows, wrists, fingers, feet, knees and occasional very low back- worst in the hips, when it flares it hurts whether I sit or stand, kills me to lay on either side, usually causes me to limp- sometimes it is a shooting pain,throbbing,dull ache,sometimes feels cold,during bad flares sometimes get shooting pain down middle of butt cheek when I walk which causes me to shuffle to avoid pain
-sudden sporadic feeling down back of both calves like cold water is being poured down them, happens in all positions and there are three spots on my hands and wrist where I get this feeling less often
- fatigue sometimes sleeping 16 hours a day and am still tired
- for weeks at a time every time I eat I immediately get stomach cramps and have diarrhea and then suddenly clears up with no change in diet
- suddenly allergic to everything, I will break out in hives for no apparent reason suddenly allergic to cats, dish soap, etc
-Bad stiffness in morning- will calm down and alternately flare throughout day-no predictable pattern-same with swelling in hands and feet/ankles
I finally went to Doctor last December when it got really bad, initially thought Lupus so ran an ANA - came back positive 1:320, I was sent to a rheumatologist, got in 2 months later, I was feeling a bit better; they ran many tests along with a hand x-ray. ANA came back negative-hand x-ray normal. I have been to many specialists, I have had every test imaginable, the only significant tests results I have had were, once positive ANA, slightly low IgG and IgA, high MPV that slightly increases every year and I also found that one of my blood tests , not sure from when, my A/G ratio was 2.5-also my blood pressure has become lower than normal in past year to 103/62.
- I am a 27 year old female smoker. My brother has Crohn's disease and my aunt died from complications of Porphyria.
Please help!!!!!