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Keeping active is the main ingredient!

I should also say that apart from medication I also walk for an hour three times a week, swim 20 x 25m laps once or twice a week and I visit my chiropractor three times a week. It's the big picture that keeps me going. I have tried cutting out, or down, on each one and it ends in disaster. I am...

My arthritis doesn't manifest itself in redness or swelling and generally not even painful to the touch, with the exception of my right hip which often gives me pain on walking. I get a general ache and stiffness, feel exhausted and I get the chills (ie, mild fever). I just feel like I have...

Diagnosis is based on more than blood work. History played a large part in my diagnosis along with the Crohn's. My rheumatologist asked me if I had ever had erythema nodosum which is painful inflamed fatty tissue on the lower parts of one's legs. I remember those painful lumps all too well from...

I am seronegative which means that nothing shows up in my bloodwork either, but I still have AS.

Since my teens I had had neck pain and awful headaches. After the birth of my first child at 25 I couldn't walk without excruciating pain in my right hip. My GP said it was a 'touch of arthritis'. Throughout the rest of my 20s my neck stiffened, I had headaches almost every day and my lower back...

Arthritis I'm with you Mountaingem. It appears the GP is just looking at the sore hip, whereas a rheumatologist will look at the whole picture, and then, refer to an orthopaedic surgeon if considered necessary. The surgeon will only look at the joint in isolation.

Arthritis I would be going to another GP!

Arthritis I suffer from Crohn's and after suffering for nigh on 30 years with joint pain of all descriptions I saw a rheumatologist. As soon as I told her my history and that I had Crohn's she diagnosed me with Ankylosing Spondylitis, a type of arthritis which affects the soft tissue of the...