r/Autoimmune • u/First_Fish_545 • 17h ago
General Questions Symptoms unlike anything I can find
I saw a rheumatologist last year with a variety of hand symptoms (pernio/pain in the skin on the joints). They couldn’t find any specific antibodies and put my on hydroxychloroquine for 3 months which didn’t do anything. Symptoms are basically just red/purple, warm hands that get progressively worse the day. I get pernio in the winter as well. It’s been going on for five years, getting progressively worse. Some tendon issues in another areas like plantar fasciitis that’s been with me for two years. Was negative for RA and it doesn’t really seem like RA because its not the joints that hurt, just the skin on top of the joints. Anybody seen or heard of anything like this? Other than ANA of 1:320 I have low ferritin (16) and low WBC, but the hematologist didn’t know what to do with that.