Arthritis

[valliali]

I am just wondering if anyone else here, in the course of their illness, experienced an acute, and short lived (like a few months) bout of arthritis?

Several months after becoming sick, I developed serious arthritis in my finger joints, with these really really painful subcutaneous lumps the size of peas on a few of the joints. This lasted for a few months, then just went away as quickly as it came. Never returned. My doctors never suspected rheumatoid arthritis.

This seems atypical for POTS/dysautonomia, so I'm just wondering if anyone else has experience this?

[janiedelite]

[Yes, I got those bumps when I first came down with POTS symptoms a few years ago, but I had a long list of more pressing medical issues and never got them investigated. My finger joints were painful too. It lasted maybe 6 months? They were painful little lumps on the palm side of my finger joints, maybe 3 of them. I forgot about them until you mentioned it in your post.

[ramakentesh]

My doctors never suspected rheumatoid arthritis

Why? It sounds exactly like it.

I replied to your last thread on this issue. I came down with Ankylosing Spondylitis about a month or so after i got POTS out of the blue. So yeah, I have a comorbid inflammatory disorder.

[valliali]

It does sound just like RA, and looked like it too, but after three months, it went away and never returned. That was over a year and a half ago. My doctors told me that this does not happen with RA. And from what I have read about it, I have never found anything that said RA can just disappear and not return.

Thankful, what was the trigger of your POTS do you know? Did you have a virus or have you been diagnosed with any?