Hi All, hope everyone is well!
I have recently been looking into PSA because of how I have been feeling and wanted to check whether these symptoms sound like what people started off with. Some days are worse than others but the reason I am hesistant in getting checked out is I am on the younger side(23) and it’s been hard to convince people that I am feeling these things, haven’t mentioned it to my family yet just my close friends and they said “you just gotta hit the gym and go out more”
TMJ-confirmed by a local dentist, horrible jaw pain and constant headache and scans found arthritis in my jaw
Psoriasis (started at 16/17) on my scalp, nose, ears and eyebrows
Joint pain, especially in knees and fingers, finger joints are always red and tender to the touch
Back pain, especially when I try to fix my posture. The muscles around my hips and back hurt as well, and my actual joints hurt heavily during these times, butt when I’m sitting and back when I’m sitting as well, in the middle of the backs nd the lower middle of the back
Shoulder pain, joint pain shows up heavily when putting arm around someone or holding a baby, extremely unbearable pain. Putting arm around someone’s shoulder starts the shoulder joint pain that is extremely painful, can’t do it for more than 2 minutes
Have noticed very recently lots of mood changes, especially getting angrier a lot more, even for small things
Lots of fatigue and incredibly hard to focus or get motivation to do things
Stiffness in the morning but this one I’m not sure about. It feels heavy to get out of bed but definitely doesn’t seem as bad as other people have it in this sub
Toes are also in pain, feet is always in pain despite not doing anything sometimes; even just relaxing at home makes my feet and toes hurt, they are also crowded with a bunion
I apologize for the long winded message; but before I bring it up to my family I wanted to speak to people who have been through it. I don’t know anyone my age that has and it’s extremely disheartening as it just gets brushed off but I also want to make sure I’m not just imaging things. Thank you!