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Sun-23-04-2017, 15:47 PM
Welcome! Your experience sounds very frustrating.
Radiologists report what they "see" as they don't deal with you directly, and from my understanding (which I admit is limited as I'm not a medical person) psoriatic arthritis has no definitive test. I have osteoarthritis and psoriasis so my primary doctor sent me to a rheumatologist for testing. It was explained to me that they take the patient's history, run test to rule certain things out and then go from there in diagnosing psoriatic arthritis. It was explained a bit better than what I just said, but I can't remember word for word.
I think Bill summed it up pretty good.
I hope you're able to get treatment now and get things sorted out.
Radiologists report what they "see" as they don't deal with you directly, and from my understanding (which I admit is limited as I'm not a medical person) psoriatic arthritis has no definitive test. I have osteoarthritis and psoriasis so my primary doctor sent me to a rheumatologist for testing. It was explained to me that they take the patient's history, run test to rule certain things out and then go from there in diagnosing psoriatic arthritis. It was explained a bit better than what I just said, but I can't remember word for word.
I think Bill summed it up pretty good.
I hope you're able to get treatment now and get things sorted out.