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Once my dermatologist confirmed psoriasis, it was clear this is a slam dunk PsA diagnosis based off SI joint pain, nail pitting, fatigue, peripheral joint pain, hair loss, etc. My primary seemed completely unaware of the disease and didn’t see how psoriasis could be connected to a rheumatic disease. She will neither provide me with a referral nor sign my short term disability/FMLA paperwork.

I have to call my dermatologist to get her to submit the referral and then who knows how long the wait to actually see the rheumatologist. I’m already pretty sure my derm will not sign off on disability papers but I’ll ask, I guess. I need to take time off now to focus my very limited waking/functional hours on PT. But it doesn’t look like I’ll get that, increasing the odds that I do a shit job and get fired. Now I fully understand the disability to homelessness pipeline.

Thanks America 👍

Hi everyone, just started on rinvoq after 20 years of misdiagnosis of eczema that turned out to be psoriasis and finally all the joint pain and vaguely autoimmune symptoms make sense.

I’m curious peoples experience with getting treatment and whether they were able to eventually add things back in their diet that were triggers for them? For example, it seems like corn may be a trigger for my joint pain. Maybe other grains as well. Probably also nightshades. I have celiac so I know I’ll never get gluten back.

The other question I have is, does anybody else have extreme digestive difficulty with high fiber foods? I had to go low fiber a few years ago, I don’t know if it is related to celiac, PsA, or something else because I don’t hear people complaining about beans and broccoli as much as I hear people talk about nightshades. My diet is very limited and maybe that’s just how it’s going to be forever, but I’m curious if anyone ever was able to add things back.