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I have redness and heat at weird places now. Since a couple of days, it’s the tips of all my fingers and nails that are red and hot, I can even feel my heart beat at the end of my fingers, kinda weird feeling 🙄. Sometimes I get also redness and heat on an elbow and sometimes it’s on the knees 🤦‍♀️. I’ve been searching for information related to autoimmune polymyositis or dermatopolymyositis since I really have symptoms of those diseases with a severe muscular weakness in my upper arms, lower… read more

March 6, 2022
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A MyLupusTeam Member

Check side effects for meds or read up on erythromelalgia. If you have poly myositis you might not feel the pain. Hope this helps

March 6, 2022
A MyLupusTeam Member

GenlancoYankowski. Thanks for the information. I already had laboratory tests done for CK but not for the aldonase. I also had an EMG of the 4 limbs in November 2021 and it was normal. The only thing I didn’t have is the biopsy. I hope the real rheumatologist will be able to find out what’s the problem in 2 months in May. I live in a small town and we don’t have specialists for those rare diseases. The rheumatologist I will see is at Fredericton, it’s a 3 hours ride from where I live.

March 6, 2022
A MyLupusTeam Member

Wishing you luck and the best possible outcome 💗

March 6, 2022

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