Wound up in the Emergency Room

[jiml]

Hello Sandra,

That does not sound good, all this pain in the past years. And in all those joints ! You seem to have the same Jim and I, PsA or psoriatic arthritis. But normally PsA sticks to the tiny joints of hands and feet.
Good that you now are seeing a rheumatologist, but beware, those doctors are old fashioned. With that I mean that they will probably try to set you on MTX, methotrexate, one of the worst psoriasis medications.
And more, it appears more and more that it does not help on PsA.
You can read the article Methotrexate no better than Placebo for Psoriatic Arhtritis on our own psoriasisclub, and you can google on methotrexate no better than placebo for psoriatic arthritis Dr. Christopher T. Ritchlin,

Take the research with you if you are going to the reumatologist, I have been there also, see also MTX for a discussion, and other posts.

Keep us posted maybe we can be of further help to you.
Caroline

Just a small correction I only have plain old psoriasis not PSA thank goodness Fred has PSA and is on Stelara for it and it's working very well
You Caroline are on psorinovo I believe and that's for your PSA isn't it?
Me on Fumaderm for my psoriasis but should work for PSA as well as it's similar to Caroline's preparation, but as Caroline says go armed with what you want , try not to be palmed off with methotrexate if you can avoid it, although some swear by it