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OA or autoimmune issue?

StevenDouglas

I woke up 15 years ago with lower back pain. It hurts when I move a certain way. I can live with that. I woke up 10 years ago with knee p...

Negative ANA with Sjogren’s symptoms

allison2308

Negative ANA blood test results but having the following symptoms: - Randomly woke up one day last week with excessive swelling under ja...

What is Small Fiber Neuprothay?

vic2151

Hi, I have had feelings of strands of ?? something in my hair or on scalp. Like strands of rope I don't know. I get so tired of never b...

1 answer

Hair on skin feeling but no hair

TrudieC

I am in the midst of finalizing a diagnosis of Lupus. I often feel like I have a hair on or bugs crawling on my arms and head and now fe...

13 answers | 12 comments

Sjogren's: tingling, muscle twitching, does anyone get it?

Rite760

Hi, I was diagnosed with Sjogren's last month after 2 years of horror not knowing what was wrong. I have all the usual symptoms of dry pa...

28 answers | 3 comments

Does internal cotton sutures ever degrade or stay in the body forever?

Long_chp

Body reacts to internal objects, lowers immune system

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Red_Star

Queensland, Australia

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