Hi,
Simply put - I’m desperate. I’ve been having so many different symptoms in the past few months that I do not know what to think and how to deal with them. Doctors keep focusing only on their specialty or what they think is urgent. I have been suffering from Hashimoto’s for years and was diagnozed with ankylosing sponylitis two years ago.
Three months ago: hyperparathyroid (I’ve been put on vitamin D) / low renal function parameters (back to normal since)
Two months ago: I hurt a finger on my right hand, twice. The swelling wasn’t important and there was no infection. However skin was broken and got in contact with the soil that was hard to clean.
A month and a half: beginning of the ankylosing spondilytis flare-up in my lower back (the usual sacroiliac joints) and right hand! Prednisone calmed it down, but it didn’t go away. I can still “feel” my back and my right hand (especially the finger I hurt) is still swollen and painful. The pain keeps moving around my body: knees, hips, feet, toes, elbows, shoulders, wrists…
When I stopped prednisone, after slowly lowering the dosage per doctor’s orders, I started suffering from exhaustion and mental fog as well. In the morning I have a bit more energy and then somewhere after lunch, it plummets and I need to lie down. Facial hirsuitism has gotten so much worse, I have no words to describe it.
In the past few weeks I have developed some sort of a rash that is covering my back – allergy? It is spreading to my arms now 
During these few months I’ve been also suffering from gum inflammation; my dentist said that there was nothing to be done apart from carefully cleaning teeth.
I do not feel that I’m getting better.
Funny thing is, my husband too has been suffering from painful joints. Pain keeps moving around.
Could all of this be somehow linked? Is it an infection? I’ve been spending a lot of time in the country, doing the gardening, uprooting bamboo… I don’t remember being bitten by a tick per se, but I was bitten by some insects.
Thank you in advance for your ideas and advice!