Hi Kellijo,

Just a thought because its top of mind since I read it this morning.

But one of the other MS members posted about a Vit D deficiency in the Vitamin forum.

Vit D deficiency can have symptoms of weak muscles and aching bones.

I am sure others may come along with some suggestions, I just read your post and remembered the other one.

I take calcium with vit d everyday. Maybe not enough I don't know.

It's an idea though. I'm running out of ideas here.

What keeps running though my head(and what scares me with the joint thing) is my neuro has had me go to a rheumy a couple of times now over the years.

Everytime I have my blood checked my ANA comes back high. So, he has always thought I had lupus too.

I've had couple of the more minor sx's before but, not enough for the rheumy to declare it lupus.

I know it's a stretch and way too early to jump to any conclusions. But, could someone inform the little voice in my head of that?

I'm not sure if I replied here on that - on the other forum I mentioned it.

I have vitamin D and calcium deficiency. I had a lot of bone pain - I could tell though that it was my bones and not muscles that hurt. Caltrate is enough for now to deal with this.

My condition was dx'd at age 2 as Rickett's. My dad had it too, my case is genetic. It's not uncommon in Irish people.

The main diff between Rickett's and just being deficient is that with Rickett's the liver can't make vitamin D or store it properly and that causes the bones to lose calcium.