I’m vaccinated AND on treatment. And, when I traveled to check in on my parents in Oct…I GOT Covid (dummy me pushed back my booster as I really needed to get to them quickly—moms health was failing).

Bad news: bleccch. Felt like crud…and prob got it worse than my sibling, who also got it, but no immune issues.

Good news: my rheum wanted me to get monoclonal antibodies,..I did and felt 80% better in about 24 hours; 99% in 48. Wow.

But…don’t skip treatment JUST because of fear of immune-suppression. Talk to your doc. And I’m a NYer…we had serious crap early, and just by being careful, I’ve taken my meds here AND stayed healthy.

This is just like me I now have to get up quickly make a coffee grab my tablets then just sit until the tablets kick in. After this I have to move so try to take the dog for as long a walk as possible to loosen my joints. I suffer joint pain over 100% of my body and also have the sciatica pains running not just down my leg and into my foot but the entire right hand side of my body starts to feel strange. Do you get the constant pain/ache in your left harm mimicking the sign of a heart attack.

I have widespread joint pain. Mine occurs in my feet and hand daily but it also moves around to knees, shoulders, back, hips. There is no pattern. I also have plantar fasciitis and heel spurs that make it hard to walk and my rheumatologist just told me patients with PsA also have problems with that too. It seems that all the off the wall things I’ve dealt with for years end up being from PsA. I thought I had a million different things wrong with me but it ends up all being from PsA.

I am newly diagnosed also and I also have Fibromyalgia. My doctor had been telling me for a few years now that I had ¨something else¨ besides the fibro and finally decided last June to make the diagnoses of PsA. Anyway, I´ve mostly had really bad pain in my left hip and lower back. Sometimes the right hip hurts too but not nearly as bad as the left. Sometimes when I have a bad flare up my shoulders will also hurt and my neck. I get pain in my fingers, usually the joint closest to the tip of my finger.... and the same for my toes actually. Every now and then my elbows and knees will hurt too. I don´t feel like it bounces around though. I feel like it is more like a volume control that gets turned down on some and up on others but it is always present in some degree in all my joints. I don´t get any redness unless a rash is starting but sometimes get puffy areas on my fingers and hands.

Yes!!! Me too!! These weird floating pains as I call them. Now that I have an official diagnosis, I thought I was imagining it. I am currently on Methotrexate. Tues thru Thursday are my best days. But am noticing the good times aren't lasting as long......