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They ended up referring me to an RA. This is the second time I've had a positive ANA test within 5 years. The speckled pattern is what's making me wonder. I have more of the symptoms of an autoimmune disease, than I don't have. I hit almost all symptoms of moderate lupus, without kidney problems, but I HAVE within the last year, had protein in my urine, but I was pregnant at that time. There's a lot going on I feel kinda dismissed by the doctor. It's almost their discretion to diagnose, because of symptoms and positive ANA alone. I've read on many medical documents that a negative anti ds is not absolute to not having an autoimmune disease. I've heard it's hard to get diagnosed, so hopefully the RA can give me some more definite answers, once I actually get in to see them :/
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lupus had a discrete diagnostic criteria, it might not be as discretionary as you think. unfortunately the symptoms of many rheumatological diseases overlap heavily with many non rheumatological conditions. best of luck.
We are a little south of Albany. Are JIA and Stills technically the same thing? We Have an appointment with pediatric rheumatologist next week. Could the reaction have been caused by a vaccine? She got it two weeks before the symptoms started
I may have said it wrong- Stills is a name given to systemic onset juvenile inflammatory arthritis, its a type of JIA. Peds rheum is exactly who yall should be seeing and they should be able to Advise if her symptoms could be vaccine related or completely different. Keep us updatedSounds like JIA. Episodic rashes and fevers fit. Ferritin supports the diagnosis.Youre mom is wrong and this absolutely sounds like rheumatoid arthritis Im sorry to say. She probably doesnt understand that rheumatoid arthritis is not just joint pain but can be fever feeling generally sick last week the interesting rash that youre describing and other auto immune future so its not like osteoarthritis that you would see in an older person for example