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Systemic bursitis/inflamed joints

I am 39 year old female and I was diagnosed with iliopsoas bursitis in left hip after 4 months of testing for other dieseases. I finally asked for a MRI and it picked it up. They told me they had to stimulate my nerves in the MRI and it felt like I was being cooked from the inside out. A week later I had shingles. I’ve been in that misery for over two months now with some lasting PHN, malaise and low grade fever. My bursitis was tolerable during the acute shingles phase since I was laying a lot and couldn’t go to work. Once I returned to work and sitting all day it started to flare a bit so I went to a pain management and rehab doctor. She ordered PT and said we could inject it. I wanted to try PT first because it wasn’t unbearable and I could function fine. Well 3 rounds of PT made me so much worse and they injured my outside hip as well. I started to feel pain in multiple spots and an ultrasound showed I also had bursitis in my sit bone. Every day is getting worse. I also feel I have it in my knee, ankle and hand as well as outer hip and I think my right side is now getting it. I am now on a steroid pack because they said I have it in too many spots and they can’t inject them all. I don’t do any repetitive motion to cause any of this. My inflammation marker is over an 8 so my doctor says I have infection somewhere. I also get burning sensations in my thigh and back and head like I’m on fire. I feel my nerves are firing randomly from the shingles episode. I honestly think having shingles has kicked my immune system into attacking my joints too, but I had the one bursitis area months prior to shingles. I tested negative for RA but I’m now being sent to a Rheumtologist for a fibromyalgia evaluation. I can barely function and the steroid pack is not helping! Any ideas?? I also have redness in my nail beds where the half moons should be and have oral lichen planus now. No doctor seems to know and just say I’m too young for these things.
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