When I was still in high school, I began have a lot of pain in my hands and feet. What began as an every once in a while pain soon morphed into a constant, stabbing pain whenever I would be on the move for more than a few hours. Being under 20, I just thought that I had done way too much and kept pushing myself through the pain. That worked well until the day that my brother was diagnosed with a disease called Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. The entire family was tested with my results coming out as inconclusive. From that moment, my life became a series of doctor visits, pills and pain.
Not a lot of information was available about Psoriatic Arthritis when I was diagnosed years later in the late 1990s. Luckily, times have changed. There's been an increase in information as well as medications used to treat the illness since then. Receiving a diagnosis of PsA doesn't have to be a life changer. Working hand in hand with your doctors to discover what works for you can make a huge difference in your quality of life when it comes to living with the disease.
For more thorough information on Psoriatic Arthritis, please click the link below to take you to a post I wrote when I first began this blog.
http://survivingpa.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-is-pa.html
Until next time,
Kay
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