So I finally did my blood work...LOL. I do have a Positive RF which is "within normal ranges." (A positive RF only occurs within 1% of healthy people, or so I have read.) and I am sero-positive "within normal ranges". Yet my doctors, will surely blow this off. Hell, I got the news before they did by getting my lab work.
In any case, I don't feel like what I experience everyday is "within normal ranges", (neck, shoulder, elbows, wrists, hands, hips, knees ankles and feet, almost always symmetrical and it rotates from day to day
) so today, I'm going to the PM and requesting a small dose of prednisone to see if that helps my joints from killing me and since my PM's staff has been so idiotic about
referring me to a rheumy, I will insist on it today!
I've read and talked to RA patients and a lot of them say they start out this way. The funny thing is, I'm okay with it. It must be somewhat early in the progression as I have only suffered the joint pain for about
8 months..8 months of HELL!!!
Anyway, I know you aren't all familiar with me, but I thought I'd share.