My ace Rheumy in NYC told me when she took my history that my first introduction to joint pain that I had recounted as gout was very likely to have been my first symptom of RA. My current Rheumy recognized that when I have flares always involves large joints - Sometimes exclusively so. So I don’t know what to think. I told you I think that my son had reactive following knee surgery and went from a 22 yo to a 82 yo man overnight. We took him to a Medical College hospital where they actually had a unit for post surgical event management and immediately said “reactive arthritis”’. But once they cooled his down it never bothered him again - I mean he is just a skeletal mess but not from arthritis.

Does reactive arthritis respond to Remicade? Because except for this infrequent Flares I’m pretty well controlled.