Checking in to say hello

[Kezz]

Welcome, Kerry

Glad you have found this site with its totally awesome members. Regarding psa, a big indicator for me is pain in the soles of my feet. Typically it is when my feet hit the floor on waking and goes away after a bit. I will notice this if I go more than five days without a DMF dose. I have had psa manifest as swollen finger and toe joints, but with DMF this does not happen. Jim, Caroline and I can vouch for its efficacy.

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the description of your PSA.  One of the things the dermo did is look at my finger joints.  She just looked at them, had a bit of a feel, and declared that I don't yet have psa.  Isn't there some kind of blood test for the onset of psa?  I mean it just seems like chicken entrails and voodoo to look at finger joints and declare all is well!

The thing is, the reason I ended up in this dermo's office is that in about mid-June, I woke up one morning and my finger joints were really sore, and then I thought, hells bells... it's here.  So, just in case, I made an appointment with a GP (the one I usually see was off on maternity leave so I ended up with another female doc).  Anyhow, I explained that I was completely freaking out about this.  GP looked at me and declared that I have vitilligo despite me telling her that my father's side of the family has psorisis, and there is no-one in our family who has vitiligo.  GP sent me off to get a blood test (for RA & gout LOL) at the local hospital.  For 3 weeks the GP didn't call me, so I went down to the practice and asked if my results are in and if indeed I do have RA and gout.   The receptionist congratulated me because my RA test and gout test were negative.   I had to laugh.  What else can you do, right?  So yeah, as other people have suggested on this thread, I will be shopping around. Most definitely.