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Originally Posted by ellsac
Hi Joanna,
Me again. I feel so sad reading your posts-as I truly can relate as confusing whhere. I alsoa lot of hee more than one illness-I have a long history of Lyme disease (when I was 10 years old), autoimmune Addison's Disease, as well as hypothyroidism. The neuropathy is new in the past year.
If I remember correctly-AS often starts in the sacroiliac joint. Was that the case for you? The SI joint has many nerves that run through it-nerves that control the muscles in the legs. Anything irritating those nerves can cause your gait to change, even if you don't realize it is happening. I have a hypermobile SI joint_hear it click in and out of place alllll the time. Because of this, I get some strange leg issues. Is it possible you have any sort of compression happening in this joint?
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Hi Ellsac, thankyou for your replies :-). Yes, that's exactly where it started and my sacroillac area has evident bony changes within due to continued inflammation. My neuropathy has begun as
A small fibre type but I agree that the gait issues could be greatly affected by that. It's all a bit confusing when you have alot of health weirdness, as you will understand from experience. I'm sorry you have to deal with a number of problems. I wonder if the Lymetriggered all your other issues. Autoimmunity is such an awful predicament, I don'tyet get why more iisn't being done to understand and treat these issues better.
Since writing, I went and saw a sports masseur who did some deep kneading and stretching of muscles round the knee area. It has thankfully addressed the stiff immobility issue massively, i really hope it lasts. Still have all my other probs but that was a nice relief. :-)