well firstly because the doctor said so :lol: I'm not trying to be a smartarse with that either. It is just that it was so problematic and limiting that I needed medical assistance to maintain mobility. Rheumatoid arthritis or this other interesting Dx what Soupdragon is mentioning are probably associated with abnormal immune system responses which attack joints just like the way it attacks the gut. Its not like Crohn's gives us arthritis. It is that the abnormally functioning immune system is hitting us in more place than just the gut or just the joints.teeny5 said:How do you know if it's arthritis or just achy joints? I am stiff in the mornings in my back and can hardly squat or I can't get up. If I try to squat several things make cracking noises. What's that about? I am paranoid about more things coming since Crohn's. I never had any issues before and now I feel like a new part if my body breaks down all the time.
Anyway, how do you know it's arthritis?
at its worst when I hop out of bed in the morning. /QUOTE]
ask about plantar fasciitis. I have that which is common with AS (cause it effects the tendons & ligaments).
it hurts on the bottom of your foot and can go into you akles tendons. it is classically worse first thing in the morning. it's an awful way of getting out bed in the morning.
ask them if it's entinistis (the inflammation of the tendons/ ligaments). It's what makes AS different from other arthritises, and not a common thing. I've had it not just as plantar fascitis but ackeles tendon as well as on the outside of my foot. Good luck!Hi outlier. I do have plantar fasciitis, too, since I have a high arch. : ) The pain I'm speaking of is not in my arch, though. It's on the left side of my left foot throughout the ankle bone and surrounding tissue. Very strange issue that 3 different docs have not been able to figure out. We'll see how #'s 4 & 5 do later this month.
yup. I have that kind. I have had the rhuemy doc call it like 3 different names, but this is it... My hands are always the worst in the morning. A few years back it was bad enough that I needed a cane. Now most of the time I can make it to the gym and be active, but when the really bad flare was going I was feeling crippled... Some permanent damage from that.I have sero negative inflammatory arthritis - in other words its not rheumatoid but acts like rheumatoid and yes it is linked to my crohns.
Affects all my major joints, my hands and feet
If you have reumy you have to take meds or you will end up in a wheel chair or worse it will even get to your organs I have screws and plates in my hands and feet from it being to late before I was diagnosed and I was young when those surgerys took placeyup. I have that kind. I have had the rhuemy doc call it like 3 different names, but this is it... My hands are always the worst in the morning. A few years back it was bad enough that I needed a cane. Now most of the time I can make it to the gym and be active, but when the really bad flare was going I was feeling crippled... Some permanent damage from that.