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AS can affect small joints, dactylitis, ( sausage finger/toe ) .... it's one of the diagnostic criteria for diagnosis. The AS family usually starts in the tendons and liagments where they attach to the bone....

Dave



that was always my understanding,
so i have a question then,
which may well be a rheutorical question:

if that's the case (which from everything i know, it is), then why can't some of us with loads of tendon problems (and for me, its always right at the enthesis; that's always the worst place by far) get a dx. i even told the last rheumy that my tendon issues have been at the entheses and he didn't seem to be interested.....that and of course the SI.

is this quote a common belief amongst all rheumatologists?
i wonder how familiar most rheumatologists are with the spondy family?

i keep reading this kind of stuff and yet am always so surprised that rhuematologists bounce me back to the doctors that send me....

just really thinking out loud....

sue