04/03/2026
Mannn I haven’t updated here in ages as I’ve still being fighting the rheumatology battle and getting nowhere 😩😩😩
But thought I’d update everyone incase your interested cause I love reading peoples health updates 😂😂😂
Literally all of last year and this year my hands and wrists and ankles have been getting slowly more painful and stiff and swollen and still not on rheumatoid medicine because my last nhs mri was weirdly clear (this still baffles me) and because of this I didn’t fit the biological criteria which is the only medicine I can go on.
My consultant kept saying I just had tendonitis in my wrist which seemed weird when I literally gave up my job but in January and it never got better. I finally got to the end of my tether and had another private rheumatologist appointment and MRI, and I honestly at this point was starting to gaslight myself thinking I’m imagining the symptoms, like I fully was starting to not trust myself .
Well well well, today I had the results and the inflammation for rheumatoid is rampant in all my hands and wrists ! Basically 8 knuckles and 4 wrist joints 😩😩😩 is clearly all still active , and we are still confused at how my first scan was clearly active , the second nhs one everything magically disappeared, and now this one shows worse than the first scan. I dunno if it just got a bit better and got worse again or if nhs scans are less detailed or what
I really hope finally the nhs is going to accept me for the medication cause it’s been 2 years nearly 3 of this crap.
Basically always trust your gut and definitely keep pushing if you think something isn’t right.
If you don’t treat it it literally deforms your joints over time 🕰️ which is mad when I’m 35 not 89
Anwyay as much as I’m still sad about it and miss my lovely clients and my job I made the right decision becusee I struggle to even squease the toothpaste in the morning 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣so imagine me trying to massage.
