Hey Miss Heather!!
Dont you go giving up on us now...I know that it is very difficult to get through a time when you do not have a dx yet..or had one and now is different. I first started showing inflammation about 6 weeks after my 2nd baby....arthritic pain...fatigue....my hands hurt so bad. My PCP was understanding and sent me to my ortho doc. He studied my symptoms and immediately sent me to my rheumy. He said it was common for women to develop an autoimmune disease post partum as the immune system is weak at that time. He feared RA or spondlropathy. My rheumy dx'd me with inflammatory arthritis on the 1st visit. On the 2nd visit he tested for Lyme, and HLAB27. BINGO!! He got it. But he never calls it AS...said it's spondlyropathy...not sure if its AS. Although I have some slight fusion, sacroiltis, TMJ, costochondritis and what not!!
Anyhow..it was very frightening not knowing, but you know what you are feeling, and you are not crazy. WE all know that what you are feeling is real. Keep that in your mind and that strength will emerge. Believe me I went to a fancy rheumy once who said I just had carpal!! I have his carpal right here...in the shape of a knuckle-sandwich!!!
Never fear....the ASkicker's are here for you!! They were here for me during my MRI and CT scan crisis a few months back. With their prayers and support....I made it......unscratched....
we're for you ...don't give up.
Askickin'buggie
