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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / October 2006Tapping into your wisdom
OK, I need everyone's help from the vast wealth of knowledge and experience of the group. I was DX w/ RA at 30. I've had psoriasis under all my nails since I was a child. My thyroid quit in my late teens/early twenties. I had an ovarian cyst removed at 33 with no recurrance since then. Now, at 46, I'm having abdominal pains which have been around to some degree for about a year. I recently had a CT scan and it came back clear except for the kidney stone we already knew about. My PCP said a kidney stone still in the kidney shouldn't be causing the type of pain I have in that part of my belly. I just saw a surgeon and she scheduled me for a colonoscopy. My immediate thought was another autoimmue problem (Crohn's). Has anyone else had multiple autoimmune problems developing over such a long time period? Or am I just getting old and falling apart? Or both???? Thanks!!!  SignatureMary Margaret Wilson Muffin's Guest House www.muffinsguesthouse.com OK, I need everyone's help from the vast wealth of knowledge and experience of the group. I was DX w/ RA at 30. I've had psoriasis under all my nails since I was a child. My thyroid quit in my late teens/early twenties. I had an ovarian cyst removed at 33 with no recurrance since then. Now, at 46, I'm having abdominal pains which have been around to some degree for about a year. I recently had a CT scan and it came back clear except for the kidney stone we already knew about. My PCP said a kidney stone still in the kidney shouldn't be causing the type of pain I have in that part of my belly. I just saw a surgeon and she scheduled me for a colonoscopy. My immediate thought was another autoimmue problem (Crohn's). Has anyone else had multiple autoimmune problems developing over such a long time period? Or am I just getting old and falling apart? Or both???? Thanks!!! SignatureMary Margaret Wilson ((((((((((((((((mm)))))))))))) not just multiple autoimmune problems, though with RA, i suspect that is more likely the case and path. i, too, can litanize an exhausting assortment of health issues, but then, i've had 12 more years than you've had to become aware of them. i'm beginning to suspect that we all start "getting old and falling apart", as soon as we become body aware of things/symptoms outside of our mind's comfort zone. that's NOT to say that it is all in our heads. every doctor knows that if a doctor wants to, that doctor can find something "wrong" with anybody (no pun intended<smile>). and too, there appears to be some validity to the entropy theory (from order to chaos), when it comes to the human body. take heart, sweetie. you are not alone in this. kate Muffin's Guest House www.muffinsguesthouse.com egads. syntax issues again. didn't intend to make it sound like i had RA, cuz i don't. i think my brain went on vacation, without me. kate OK, I need everyone's help from the vast wealth of knowledge and experience of the group. I was DX w/ RA at 30. I've had psoriasis under all my nails since I was a child. My thyroid quit in my late teens/early twenties. I had an ovarian cyst removed at 33 with no recurrance since then. Now, at 46, I'm having abdominal pains which have been around to some degree for about a year. I recently had a CT scan and it came back clear except for the kidney stone we already knew about. My PCP said a kidney stone still in the kidney shouldn't be causing the type of pain I have in that part of my belly. I just saw a surgeon and she scheduled me for a colonoscopy. My immediate thought was another autoimmue problem (Crohn's). Has anyone else had multiple autoimmune problems developing over such a long time period? Or am I just getting old and falling apart? Or both???? Thanks!!! SignatureMary Margaret Wilson ((((((((((((((((mm)))))))))))) not just multiple autoimmune problems, though with RA, i suspect that is more likely the case and path. i, too, can litanize an exhausting assortment of health issues, but then, i've had 12 more years than you've had to become aware of them. i'm beginning to suspect that we all start "getting old and falling apart", as soon as we become body aware of things/symptoms outside of our mind's comfort zone. that's NOT to say that it is all in our heads. every doctor knows that if a doctor wants to, that doctor can find something "wrong" with anybody (no pun intended<smile>). and too, there appears to be some validity to the entropy theory (from order to chaos), when it comes to the human body. take heart, sweetie. you are not alone in this. kate Muffin's Guest House www.muffinsguesthouse.com > OK, I need everyone's help from the vast wealth of knowledge and experience > of the group. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thanks!!! Aplastic anaemia at 24 and undifferentiated spondyloarthritis at 31. I really should know this, and I'm probably not recalling because I'm incredibly sick at the moment, but isn't there a higher risk of other autoimmune diseases over time if you've already developed one? That said, I like MRIs for showing things up that cause pain. CTs have limited uses when it comes to soft tissue problems (though they are cheap and quick and comparatively much less painful, part of the quick thing I think). Ari Signaturespammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor and literally save someone's life: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ Mary Margaret, After 8 years of hanging out with this group o' gimps I am convinced that auto-immune disorders come in clumps and often, over time, they just sorta pile up on ya. Some of them are brought on by the drugs we use like steroid induced diabetes. Nearly all the DMARD's used to treat RA suppress the immune system setting up an environment that is apt to fail again and again. There is a 'sick' logic to the notion that a mis-functioning immune system is going to break down again and again. I have a few and if the group were polled I think multiple immune disorders might be in the majority. Mine have come slowly over a 30 year period. I believe the answer to your question is BOTH. All of us are getting older and we are all falling apart.>g< johnie > OK, I need everyone's help from the vast wealth of knowledge and experience > of the group. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Muffin's Guest House > www.muffinsguesthouse.com |
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