I am 23 and had my daughter 1 ½ years ago and ever since I had her (by c-section) I have been going down hill. I have a swollen wrist on the left hand and it hurts to lift anything with both wrists. My fingers on the right hand are sore really bad in the morning, they are not swollen but sore. Not actually my fingers but the knuckle bones in the palm of my hand. They are this way until and take a long hot shower and I have moved around for a few hours.

This is the order that I remember to the best of me that it came. I never have fever; and none of the spots are red. I hit my right fourth toe on a chair months ago and it is sore sometimes from the toe up about 3 inches into my foot on top and bottom, I can’t pull my toe up at all. When I stand up on it at work it burns really bad. It is not broke or fractures I have had xrays. I woke up one morning and my neck hurt really bad I thought that maybe I had slept wrong but the pain never goes away. In both of my thighs the muscles ache and a have a hard time walking after I have been sitting for a while (20 minutes sometimes). I have lower back pain and knee pain. The knee pain sometimes is horrible; I have to wrap them up in blankets and go to sleep. In the past two weeks I have been having unbearable pain in my arms. In both normally from the elbow to the wrist, the muscles hurt more than anything, it feels like my elbows are going to pop but they can’t. In the morning it is so bad that I can’t brush my hair, wash my hair and sometimes put my own clothes on. My sed rate is always extremely high and they don’t know why. Cortisone shots don’t help I have had 2.

He said that he thinks that is it the start of Rheumatoid arthritis or fibromyalgia. What do you think??

I went to another dr and he gave me prednisone, 20mg 3 pills for 4days, 2 pills for 4days and then 1 pill for days. He told me to tell the RA dr when I go back if it worked. Over night I have never felled so good. I can move everything and nothing hurts. The sweating and being nervous was bad the first two days and now has seems to not be so bad. I have been having blood when I blow my nose.


Sed rate 50 (0-20) 2nd time 55 (0-20)
RA neg 2 times
C-Reactive Protein 1.9 (<1.0)
Pravo B19 IGG 6.73 (>1.10) B19 IGM .13 (<.90)
CBC all was good but polys 75(50-70) and the lymph 16 (20-40) and MPV 8.0 (9.2-12.
Ceratinine 0.6 (.7-1.2)
Liver test was good but the SGOT was 10 (15-46)
Cyclic citrullinated peptide <15.6 (<20 is neg)
FANA neg uric acid 4.5 (2.5-6.2)
Lupus test neg