psoriatic arthritis??

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Hi everyone.

I'm feeling very frustated tonight.

For the past year I've been dealing with a skin reaction to

different medicines (first plaquenil and recently methotrexate) or

so I thought. My ra dr wasn't sure what the rash was from and the

dermatologist was pretty sure it was the meds both times I went to

him about it. We would start & stop my meds and it seemed like it

was definetely the medicine.

I've went off all med's again recently and my face cleared up and so

I was sure he was right. Until today. All of a sudden it's back, and

in full flare. My face is covered in this weird rash again and I

know now for sure it can't be those meds. Haven't been on them for

weeks. I've even stopped my mobic and nexium for the past two weeks.

So, I began looking (again) on the internet for info on arthritis

and rashes being linked and I found something called psoriatic

arthritis, kinda sounds like a combo of RA and psoriasis. Thinking

maybe this is what I truely have. Anyone familar with it?

Any info anyone has would be greatly appreciated. I'm getting to my

wits end. Something from the inside must be causing my skin to do

this. It's just my face (not the lupus rash for sure) and it spreads

down my neck just a bit.

Thanks