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Lupus? Autoimmune disease?
Hi I'm 20yrs old and worried about auto immune diseases.
On my fathers side there is heaps a lupus and rhumatiod arthritis, as well as fibromyalgia, palindromic rheumatism and a few others similar!
As I was growing up I always used to get reAllly bad 'growing pains' in my cales. Which Is normal, but now that I'm old I get them a fair bit at night, as well as what I can only describe as shin splints, which disable me from walking about once a month. I get arthritis pain in my right wrist where I broke it a few years back when the weather changes, but the pain I've been getting on and off for the past year is different when I compare it to that. The pain usually starts in say my other wrist, then travels to my fingers and sometimes to my elbow, it's like a dull ache. It's quite painful. I also experience this in my legs which effects my feet ankles and knees. I always starts in the joints but as it spreads almost feels like my muscles and bones are aching aswel. It doesn't happen daily though and there's never any nods or red spots. It's starters affecting my upper arms and shoulders. These pains usually only affect one area at a time not my whole body, and can last from a few hours to a couple of days. I've seen a Rhummy who said I 'probably' have fibromyalgia but that nothing else is wrong and that Its probably just because I'm over weight?
Bt how would that be affecting my arms? He ran a rhumatiod factor test which was normal and a few others which were normal
Also when the seasons changed from winter to spring and it started to warm up I got a rash all over my arms and hands from the sun which I've read can be to do with autoim aswel.
Just needing some clarification that this may or may not be the cause because I feel like I'm crazy or something cause the doctors keep dismissing it but I know my body and something is wrong? Please help :)
On my fathers side there is heaps a lupus and rhumatiod arthritis, as well as fibromyalgia, palindromic rheumatism and a few others similar!
As I was growing up I always used to get reAllly bad 'growing pains' in my cales. Which Is normal, but now that I'm old I get them a fair bit at night, as well as what I can only describe as shin splints, which disable me from walking about once a month. I get arthritis pain in my right wrist where I broke it a few years back when the weather changes, but the pain I've been getting on and off for the past year is different when I compare it to that. The pain usually starts in say my other wrist, then travels to my fingers and sometimes to my elbow, it's like a dull ache. It's quite painful. I also experience this in my legs which effects my feet ankles and knees. I always starts in the joints but as it spreads almost feels like my muscles and bones are aching aswel. It doesn't happen daily though and there's never any nods or red spots. It's starters affecting my upper arms and shoulders. These pains usually only affect one area at a time not my whole body, and can last from a few hours to a couple of days. I've seen a Rhummy who said I 'probably' have fibromyalgia but that nothing else is wrong and that Its probably just because I'm over weight?
Bt how would that be affecting my arms? He ran a rhumatiod factor test which was normal and a few others which were normal
Also when the seasons changed from winter to spring and it started to warm up I got a rash all over my arms and hands from the sun which I've read can be to do with autoim aswel.
Just needing some clarification that this may or may not be the cause because I feel like I'm crazy or something cause the doctors keep dismissing it but I know my body and something is wrong? Please help :)
Rhumatiod factor, ana, thyroid, full blood count, all vitamins cholesterol, sugars...
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