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Hi, Now that I just posted a question, I wanted to introduce myself. I am a 22

year old female and I was injured pretty severely last Nov. from a 6-8 foot

fall. I fell on my hands and knees but primarily on my left wrist and knee. It

hurt so bad but the xrays came back negative for any breaks. I was pretty much

just diagnosed with sprains and strains of my left knee, left hip, left wrist,

and thoracic spine. Later, I was told that I have piriformis syndrome of the

left hip, chondromalacia of the left knee, bursitis of both the left hip and

left knee, and now have chronic myofascial pain and instability with stiffness

in my upper back. Then in June my fingers started aching almost all the time in

the finger joints and knuckle joints and I also started having pain and grating

in the small joints of both feet. My doctor(orthopedic surgeon) diagnosed me as

having hypermobile joints and wanted to do tests for RA, and lupus, which the

lupus one was negative and I'm not sure what to think of the RA factor being

active(instead of non reactive). My doctor wants me to see a rheumatologist(he

said for fibromyalgia) but I told him I didn't think I had fibromyalgia so he

didn't give me a referral and he told me he wanted me to go back to PT for 4

more weeks. Now, I'm thinking that maybe it would not be a bad idea to see a

rheumatologist if not for anything else but a second opinion.

RAK