My face is not in there as it was late at night, I was so tired as I didn't nap and was in my pjs and in bed. So, just for you Sally, just this once . . .This is me and my girls taken about a month or so ago. It doesn't look like it but I was pretty sick at the time (fever, vomiting all night, etc.) and ended up in the hospital two days later (diverticulitis that didn't respond to oral abx). So, now you don't have to pull my hand down to see my face. haha



As for the swelling, this is the reason they think I have lupus. Long story short, I haven't seen the test results and the dr won't give them to me despite me asking her at my last rheumy visit. She said, "I told you at your last appt., you have lupus and sjogrens." OK. It's not RA as my RF have been negative right along and my PCP had just done the test prior to me going to the rheumatologist. The rheumy said I don't have RA. So who knows.

I've been dealing with this for a few years but it has gotten so much worse and is happening more frequently. It used to only happen once every six months give or take. Every since February, it's been happening quite a bit and it's almost all joints/tendons that do this. My last PCP saw it and ran tests. He said it was tenosynovitis. It was the only time, that I know of, that a lupus test came back positive (antiDS DNA or something like that). Upon further testing, the lab said it wasn't lupus. It flares up and then disappears so I'm pretty sure its autoimmune related.