SERIOUSLY GREAT FORTUNE. when I was first diagnosed I lived in NYC working as Chief of Staff to a senior exec at the bank and that level of Officer had their own clinic so they could just run upstairs if they needed a doc. I couldn’t take notes in meetings or even open my own water bottles- so he asked the upstairs head of medicine and the next day I saw one of the best rheumatologists in the city. And a woman to boot. When I moved to NC she found a referral for me (after the one I found on my
Own told me I had OA, not RA. Until that point I had never tested positive for RA factor,
But when that jerk tested me to prove I didn’t have it, damned if I didn’t. That was my mother in heaven saying “I’ve got this”. 🙂
But yes, freakish good luck.

I am going to wait for the CT to see if it notes adhesions or significant inflammation but it’s not out of the question to me that it’s an inflammatory reaction.