RA, fibromyalgia,?? what do you think??

I am fixing to go to my 4th doctor about this problems and I going crazy with getting the run around. If there is anything that you can think of that might fit this problems please let me know so I can research them to have questions to ask the new doctor( I will have my files sent to him before hand). I am driving 2 hours from my town to see this doctor that I have been researching.





All of this has happened in the last 6 months.





This is the order that I remember to the best of me that it came. I never have fever; and none of the spots are red. I hit my right fourth toe on a chair months ago and it is sore sometimes from the toe up about 3 inches into my foot on top and bottom, I can’t pull my toe up at all. When I stand up on it at work it burns really bad. My fourth finger on my left hand swells really bad like a sausage almost everyday and stays that way for hours if not all day, may one day a week it will go down(this is the worst of everything to me). In have also noticed that when I salty things the swelling is worse, even if I drink tons of water. My fourth finger on my right hand does not swell but is more of pain from my finger into my palm. I can’t bind them when I get up in the morning. On both fingers if you squeeze the bones they hurt extreme bad. Not all the time but most of the time they do. I woke up one morning and my neck hurt really bad I thought that maybe I had slept wrong but the pain never goes away, I can’t turn my neck to see on traffic when turning onto a road I have to get up in my seat to see if something is going. My thumbs hurt, normally, both at once to where I can’t pull them in to pick anything up. I can’t grip to open my meds, a bottle anything like that. My left wrist is swollen and I wear a brace on it at work but it normally does nothing but doesn’t let it get any worse. My left wrist does not hurt. In both of my thighs the muscles ache and a have a hard time walking after I have been sitting for a while (20 minutes sometimes). I have lower back pain and knee pain. The knee pain sometimes is horrible; I have to wrap them up in blankets and go to sleep. In the past two weeks I have been having unbearable pain in my arms. In both normally from the elbow to the wrist, the muscles hurt more than anything, it feels like my elbows are going to pop but they can’t. In the morning it is so bad that I can’t brush my hair, wash my hair and sometimes put my own clothes on. I have tried celebrex, mobic, 800 ibuprofen, and sulfasalazin 500. The last one I tried to take but the pills are awful. I could not get them down. My sed rate is always extremely high and they don’t know why. I have had 2 rh test done and they are both negative. I am going to try another doctor, hoping that it will get better. Cortisone shots don’t help I have had 2. Uric test was good, FANA test was okay, C reative protein was okay, and the parvo test was negative. Negative lupus test. He said that he thinks that is it the start of Rheumatoid arthritis or fibromyalgia. What do you think??





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Thank you for anything that you can tell me.

RA, fibromyalgia,?? what do you think??
The swelling teels me it is NOT Fibromyalgia.





Lack of sweeling and inflammtion are hallmark signs of FMS





Google causes of Edema (swelling/water retention)
Reply:IF you have FMS and swelling-You probably have a 2nd condtion--or you are misdiagnosed and do not have FMS at all-you have a different condition such as arthritis-





if you any indication of inflammation-you need to explore you condition further- Report It

Reply:Check out http://www.fibromyalgiasource.com for lots of information about Fibromyalgia including my experience living with it.
Reply:People have said that people with Fibromyalgia don't swell. That's no entirely true. I have Fibromyalgia and my wrists and knees swell. My sed. rate is also fairly high. If you have tested neg. for lupus have you tried a thyroid test? Go to a ruhemetologist and have him do a test. Not very painful, no blood work, nothing like that. My rhemetologist did a test where he simply poked, I want to say, eighteen different places. They are trigger points for people who have Fibromyalgia. If more than 12 of these points hurt then you def. have Fibromyalgia, if you have less than 12 then you don't. Good luck on figuring out what it is!!
Reply:Well, you say this started in the last six months? Your name says you're trying for a baby. Does this correlate to the time frame in which you've been trying? Or that you've tried something new? It may be reactions to do with fertility meds (female or male). Are you Rh- with an Rh+ partner? Have you ever been tested for copper intolerance? This is different than an allergy. It does nothing. It builds up and builds up and builds up rather than your body processing the copper and eventually becomes toxic. It's a simple test, they shine a bright light (like when you get your eyes checked) into your eyes and see if it looks like your eyes glow copper around the coloured area. If so- you probably have Wilson's disorder. Which manifested in my cousin exactly how you describe what's going on. You may also have Raynaud's Phenomena.


I would highly recommend seeing a rheumatologist.