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Hello my name is Bonnie and I am 56...I was diagnosed with PA last

year... I was given Enbrel and taken off the celebrex that I have

been taking for years..being told I can not take both...Without the

celebrex my back was very back due to degenrative disk disease...I

have PS very slightly on my elbows and one ankle...However, I have

has the pain in my had since 1992 when I had a very sever case of

Mononucelosis, with jaundice...They never new what was wron and kept

testing me for lupus... I had to recently stop work due to the pain,

which caused depression and made things hard to work in a stressful

enviroment... The irony is my oldest child has a very very bad case

PS, so bad that is upsets the family with the cracking and scaliness

as well as it has effected his nails...He is always complaining of

hurting..about a month ago he finally went to the Dr for help (he is

32 and we have been asking him for years to go)...They put him on a

steroid cream and MTX pills...Well I have never heard him so

happy...His skin is great already and I have not heard him complain

of hurting....

I am looking for a New DR since my husband and I just moved

tuff not being able to doing my hobby of making jewlery since I

can't use my hands well...maybe some day...