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@kenyalama

Thank you for your comment Athenalee.
I actually only have anti SSB with NO anti AA so doctors tell me I that true Sjogren’s patients must have positiive anti SAA not the BB that I have
I also suffer from severe gingivitis and mouth sores, coarseness on and off but they refuse to diagnose it
I feel frustrated lately
Doctors never deny my symptoms, my body shows abnormalities and MRIs etc show abnormalities but my serology is normal except for the Anti SBB antibodies and doctors are puzzled
I can’t walk because of severe pain
Typing is now hard because of small nerve neuropathy. I type with the side of my index finger
The other abnormality in my blood was very high iron levels and my PCP says it’s lab error
I will have it done again in a few months
My neurologist ordered scoliosis test
What else ?
I try very hard to get out of bed every day but I do and I smile for family and friends and I still live alone
I also have a pain pump for trigeminal neuralgia. The tip of the catheter ends in my brain and I still have pin and needles in my right cheek and electric pain in my right eyebrow but I can speak now and the pain is tolerable
I feel terrible sharing all of this it’s too much and I apologize to all of you but it feels good to vent

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Thank you again! I just read entirely the link you sent me
That is ME!! Including the robes with my veins! Swelling and hurting and bursting leaving bruises !
And yes my rheumatologist is only looking at my serology although I do have tge anti SSB etc
Last time I saw him he was dismissive to say the least. He even stretched my appointment to four months, did not want to drain the fluid from my knees ( yes both swollen, painful with Baker Cysyts each .
Now I know! Not see how to approach him!
I am on a Medicare advantage plan
I will go to bed a bit less guilty today. I know I am not making any of it up.
Thanks a million Shigren’s advocate
By the way the American Assiciation of rheumatologicals diseases is also strict :
It is not Sjogren’s without the anti SSA but I know what I feel and see and feel! in my own body
Thanks a million again