How bad is it really?
So im a 20M and i have had scalp psoriasis diagnosed since 10. I never put much thought into what the condition could become because i was diagnosed when i was a kid and i wasnt exactly thinking about anything and as i grew older it just became a normal aspect of my life. This changed like a week ago when i woke up with my left wrist swollen and i could barely move it up and down. It wasnt really due to the pain more like it was locked from moving more. My mom called my rheumatologist (who until that point i thought was useless, im sorry) and they booked a consult the very next day to check it. She told me it was most likely either Psoriatic arthritis or rheumatic arthritis and i had never seen my parents as distressed as they were. I had no idea what it meant because i never bothered to look it up but apparentely its really bad. Im waiting to do my tests but ive been kinda stressing because when i searched what both were it seems like hell.
So is it really that bad? If its really psoriatic arthritis whats gonna happen to me? Is the pain that unbearable or are those extreme-cases? Is the pain and the locked feeling permanent or do they just randomly appear?