Re: Can you have Multiple Arthritis Diagnoises

[Guest guest]

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> > Anyone have any information on being Dx'ed as having a couple of

> different types of arthritis? I am positive for ra factor, with

> most but not all the symptoms of RA. I also have symptoms of

> Psaoritic(sp?) arthritis. My mother was also like this with a

> positive ANA for Lupus also coming back as positive about half the

> time.

> >

> > I just got out of the hospital for a septic hip joint and my

> Rheumy is 're-thinking' my dx of RA only.

> >

> > Oh, and on a different note, how long does it take to be able to

> walk without a walker after hip surgery? I know I'm being

> impatient, it's only been a week.

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Undifferentiated Connective-Tissue Disease

Many connective-tissue diseases (CTDs) share common signs and

symptoms, which frequently makes the diagnosis of a specific

rheumatic disease difficult. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic

lupus erythematosus (SLE), systemic sclerosis (SSc), polymyositis

(PM), dermatomyositis (DM), mixed connective-tissue disease (MCTD),

and Sjögren syndrome (SS) can present with similar clinical features,

particularly during the first 12 months of symptoms.

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2937.htm

Hope this helps.

a

On Jun 6, 2006, at 12:06 AM, cynthiadew1 wrote:

> Since no one responded, I thought I would slightly change the

> title. My problems is I do not fit neatly into any two types of

> arthritis dx's, and have some test results that seems to be

> exclusive of each other. Not a big deal, but I am starting to

> respond like my mother did. Her Rheumy could quite put her into

> either RA or Lupus.

>

>

[Guest guest]

I have both RA and OA and am being treated for both . in WI

cynthiadew1 <cynthiadew1@...> wrote:

Since no one responded, I thought I would slightly change the

title. My problems is I do not fit neatly into any two types of

arthritis dx's, and have some test results that seems to be

exclusive of each other. Not a big deal, but I am starting to

respond like my mother did. Her Rheumy could quite put her into

either RA or Lupus.

>

> Anyone have any information on being Dx'ed as having a couple of

different types of arthritis? I am positive for ra factor, with

most but not all the symptoms of RA. I also have symptoms of

Psaoritic(sp?) arthritis. My mother was also like this with a

positive ANA for Lupus also coming back as positive about half the

time.

>

> I just got out of the hospital for a septic hip joint and my

Rheumy is 're-thinking' my dx of RA only.

>

> Oh, and on a different note, how long does it take to be able to

walk without a walker after hip surgery? I know I'm being

impatient, it's only been a week.

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

,

It's certainly possible to have more than one type of arthritis, but it's

important to keep in mind that very few of the tests that your

rheumatologist orders are specific to any one disease. For example, a person

could have a positive rheumatoid factor and not have rheumatoid arthritis

and a positive ANA and not have lupus. Some research indicates that maybe as

many as 30% of people with RA have a positive ANA, but it would be highly

inappropriate for all of those people to be told that they have both RA and

lupus (concurrent RA and lupus in a given individual is unusual).

As the information a posted indicates, undifferentiated or mixed

connective tissue disease is characterized by several features of more than

one disease. It's also possible to have an overlap syndrome (it's not

unusual for a given individual to have some RA signs and symptoms and some

lupus signs and symptoms in overlap).

When you were hospitalized for septic arthritis of your hip, what organism

was responsible? Did they find any crystals? How old are you (if you don't

mind saying)? What symptoms of psoriatic arthritis do you have?

Not an MD

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

[ ] Can you have Multiple Arthritis Diagnoises

> Since no one responded, I thought I would slightly change the

> title. My problems is I do not fit neatly into any two types of

> arthritis dx's, and have some test results that seems to be

> exclusive of each other. Not a big deal, but I am starting to

> respond like my mother did. Her Rheumy could quite put her into

> either RA or Lupus.

>

>

>

>

>

>

>>

>> Anyone have any information on being Dx'ed as having a couple of

> different types of arthritis? I am positive for ra factor, with

> most but not all the symptoms of RA. I also have symptoms of

> Psaoritic(sp?) arthritis. My mother was also like this with a

> positive ANA for Lupus also coming back as positive about half the

> time.

>>

>> I just got out of the hospital for a septic hip joint and my

> Rheumy is 're-thinking' my dx of RA only.

>>

>> Oh, and on a different note, how long does it take to be able to

> walk without a walker after hip surgery? I know I'm being

> impatient, it's only been a week.

>>

>>

[Guest guest]

,

I was hospitalized two weeks ago. I went to the ER on Thursday and had

emergency surgery midnight on Friday. The x-rays which showed

nothing. Fortunately I had a friend with me who refused to take me

home until they did a MRI that showed a lot of fluid in my hip. They

did a Arthroscopy on the hip joint and took out 40 cc's of fluid. The

cultures and tests of the fluid, so far do not show any bactrial

infection or crystals in the fluid. It will take another few weeks

until the culture for Fungus or TB come back. So no one knows why my

hip went septic suddenly.

I am 46, my rheumy (whom I like very much) is re'thinking my diagnoise

of RA. Or at least adding some other elements in. My mother had

symptoms of psoriatic arthritis; the sausage digits, the linings of her

lungs were involved, rashes. She also had a positive RA factor and

sometimes a positive ANA as well. I haven't been tested for ANA

lately, but with the exception of my lungs being okay, I am starting to

have the exact same symptoms as my mother. She died at 52 without ever

getting a diagnosis of what was really going on with her. So you can

see why I am very concerned that my symptoms are following the same

path. In addition I also have Calicium deposits (or crystals) in my

tendons. Apparently they looked on my MRI like the beginning of a

snowstorm in the tendons around the joints.

, I would like to thank you and the others who have responsed to my

questions,

When you were hospitalized for septic arthritis of your hip, what

organism

was responsible? Did they find any crystals? How old are you (if you

don't

mind saying)? What symptoms of psoriatic arthritis do you have?