So I'm wondering if I should go see the doctor
Hi, I'm 23 years old, and I'm starting to get a little concerned, but I keep brushing it off as other things. My mother, who's chronically ill and has been in the medical field, keeps telling me it might be Psa. I'm going to see the doctor, but I'm waiting on my insurance from my new job
For context, around 19, when I got my first job, I got a really, really bad case of contact dermatitis on my hands, or at least we think it was. And after that, it wouldn't go away and would get bad, better, and then way worse. To the point that my hands were unusable and always cracking and bleeding. It would even spread up my arm, and we thought it was because of the chemicals in the dishwater at my work; it would get better when I didn't do dishes or washed my hands with the soap they provided. But for years since 19, I've had it on and off, and for some reason it always popped up when I was extremely stressed at work.
Now, around 20 or so, I started seemingly having joint pain. starting in my hands and feet, alongside the rashes that would sometimes be on my elbows as well. The pain would come and go and usually was in my hands, elbows, sometimes knees, and feet. I am a heavy person, so feet and knees, sure. But my hands and elbows were the most affected. Alongside other symptoms, of having really stiff hands in the morning that lasted for almost an hour or more. And despite taking steroids, the only thing that worked was this over-the-counter psoriatic hand lotion.
Now I'm 23, and after not experiencing anything wrong except a rash or two on my face (not a butterfly rash; it was red and flaky like psoriasis) for a while, I began waking up with stiff hands again for the last 3 days. I thought it was just because I started a new cooking job that I had never done before, and I was adjusting to using my hands again. But this morning and yesterday, I felt it in my entire body, practically. Mostly my hands, neck, and shoulders, but my back and elbows too. It felt like I woke up with early-onset rigor mortis, to be dramatic. And now I'm at work, miserable and concerned. I'm even developing an itchy rash again on one side of my face, just a small one, not a butterfly rash
As well as that, I also have some weird pinprick nail pitting on one single nail. Also recently found out my father had psoriasis, but I don't think he had PSA.