Hi I'm the new girl here!

[Guest guest]

Hello! I am very excited to be a part of this group, nobody has even

heard of PA when I tell them what I have. I started showing signs of

P when I was five years old, no one else in any family history that I

know of has ever had P. When I was 12 I had terrible pain in my jaws,

I was sent to a special dentist and he wanted to break my jaws and

rewire them because of some deformity. Thank God I didn't do it! By

the time I was 17 my knees where killing me. Then a few years later I

started getting terrible neck pain. No one listened to me, not even

my mother. At 18 I started seeing a RA and they told me I had

juvinile (sp) arthitis, even though there was no RA factor in my

blood. For years I was treated for this, and never had a RA factor in

my blood. My P has always been really bad, a lot of horrible break

outs! My nails too. Finally, in 2000 after I gave birth to my twins a

new RA finally said I had PA. My neck has permanent damage and I have

very limited mobility in my neck. my hands always show damage in

xrays even though I don't have any pain in them. My new thing that is

less than a year old is my right hip. I had a bone scan that proved

that my hip is so bad that I have very little cartlidge left.

Anyway my question for you all is do you notice that your pain in a

new place comes very quickly and out of the blue and then you find

out that there is already extensive damage, like with my hip?

Also, I have a weird tingling in my left foot a lot and it feel numb

quite a bit.

The other thing I was relieved to hear is that some of you feel like

you are in a haze sometimes. I have had very strange episodes like

that and I thought I was losing my mind. I'm only 29 and I feel like

I am doomed!

Thanks,