Hi Wendy, sure...

The very first thing that sent me to a rheumatologist was neck pain. I was sent by my GP. The very top had straightened, I was told due to constant muscle spasms. That was 17 years ago. When my pregnancy put me in hospital for three months, rheumy was contacted and kept me on daily heparin because the anti bodies make for sticky blood make for premature labor (so I was basically contracting for the last 12 weeks) (14 year old is fine and just hit 6 foot!). AT that time I was told I was ANA positive, and let's 'keep an eye out for Lupus'. Great.
Four years later, second pregnancy, so got a complete blood work up (work-out) and all ana and antibodies gone. (See Trudi's post on remission).
For the next 8 years only slowly creeping problems with back and knees, such that I thought it was because I was so active... I deserved to be sore (I rode 5 days a week and did yoga 3 times a week, gardened every day).
Two years ago SI kicks in... 6 months later, after nothing helps, I return to rheumy (after 8 or 9 years) and am positive for rf for the first time ever.
But now it's rheumy's jr partner and she doesn't really want to 'comment on the discrepancies' and I don't feel like I really know what is going on so I google the list of meds she wants me on (which I resist for half a year) and I find KA. And I can't believe it. So I go back in and say 'well, do I have AS? And she says 'well, that's what I was thinking, but your work up from 17 years ago says you're hla negative'. I can't get a straight answer about that, because RA has it's own hla's and I've read RA and AS are mutually exclusive...
And I have to say, sometimes I've asked so many questions here, that I feel reluctant to bring up the ones that got different answers before, even though I crave some clarification there...

so...
neck pain, ANA positive, anticardiolipid antibodies. then
back and knees, then
SI, SI, SI (some knees and shoulders) no ANA or antibodies, positive rf.

sulfasalazine has helped all pain but SI, and that is much much better, and still getting better ( maybe because of the ldn?). I'd say my pain has remained at a 2 or 3 for the past 3 weeks... oddly I am having more stiffness than pain, or maybe when the pain was a 7 I didn't notice/care about the stiffness)...
my boring story.( Sorry it's all over the place, It's my kids first day of school and I have to go wake them up) Does it look familiar?
I hope you feel better tonight.

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