I am new to the group, but I was diagnosed several years ago. After trying multiple treatments, I ended up on Humira. It definitely seems to help, even if it feels like hot lava when you inject it! I seemed to have things pretty well under control, except for some stubborn psoriasis patches, when I had a deep 1.5 inch laceration to my left arm (between elbow and wrist), requiring several stitches and about a 4-5 week recovery time. My issue/question is this: I have never had symptoms on the left side of my body. Every problem has always been on the right. I am about 2 months out from the injury, and even though the laceration has healed completely, my fingers on my left hand have become symptomatic over the last 2 weeks. Have any of you ever experienced the onset of PA symptoms after an injury such as this?
Hi AuntCat
My skin psoraisis always got better after an injury of any sort. But my PsA develped after sugery to correct a gross bunion. I think as our immune systems are haywire anyway then either or both react when our body decides it’s been assaulted by an injury or surgery. And my experience of PsA to date is that it pops up anywhere it feels like doing. Without rhyme nor reason too.
My doc said that PsA will attack new and old injuries to connective tissue. MY right knee has been operated on 4 times and it always hurts badly. One of the things that started me down the path to the diagnosis was from a neck surgery. I had to have to vertebrae refused and they used bone off of my hip this time. For months after the surgery my hips hurt badly. My neck doc said it would for a year or so. But the pain spread to the other hip and he put me on steroids thinking it was inflammation from the surgery. Other hip cleared up for about a month, then the pain came back. He suspected something else causing the inflammation and I was well into all over pain.
Once I got to see a rheumy he said the pain in my hips was from the PsA attacking the surgical site.
I have 4 fused vertebrae in my neck and it seems to ache constantly now. I had a three week attack of gout in my feet and after walking on my feet funny for the duration, all of the bones in my feet started hurting badly. Doc told me that whenever I inflamed other bones and joints the PsA could get into it. That led to my latest round of steroids to clear up my feet.
That’s my experience. Absolutely.