Post trauma arthritis and RA?

Sezeelson
Sezeelson Member Posts: 133
edited 5. Jan 2014, 06:06 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hi all!

OK, so yesterday I learned that I didn't just suddenly stop walking as a baby and was eventually diagnosed with arthritis of the hips at 16months old like my mum had always told me.

Apparently, I fell down the stairs and my knee just got more and more swollen over the next few days (which apparently shouldn't happen in babies?) before being diagnosed at 16 months. My mum was probably drinking as she had her friends over and I was left to my own devices, I also knocked a few teeth out. Maybe she felt guilty so she didn't tell me the truth?

Anyway, this would post trauma arthritis yes? If so, could it spread to the rest of all my joints?

Or is it more likely that I already had the autoimmune disease and this bash just pushed it into full force?

I was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. I'm just curious

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  • Boomer13
    Boomer13 Member Posts: 1,931
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    There has been some evidence in the med literature linking autoimmune arthritis to trauma in certain individuals but it's not a clear association. I think JIA is even a little more mysterious. People with psoriasis can have it worsen after trauma both in skin and joints. That seems to have happened with me; my problems began with a joint injury in one, then spread to all my joints but I also had several illnesses crop up at the same time, so no one could say for sure what triggered my problems. I likely have a genetic pre-disposition that lead to my illness. The trauma and illness was just bad luck.

    Since mine was a work injury, I researched a lot to claim for compensation. The work claim was ultimately denied because medical research has not proven a clear link with trauma. It seems it's more to do with the genetics of the individual. You may never know for sure if it was your accident that triggered things for you and, even if it wasn't that, it may have happened with another trigger anyway.

    You could discuss it with your doc, they have have more current insight into JIA. I know there's lots of research/discoveries ongoing.

    Good luck,
    xxAnna
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi
    I'm sorry I'm not a lot of help......just that I have O.A
    I also have arthritis in my ankle which is a trauma one
    Car reversed over my ankle and a few years later arthritis in that joint as well as others started.
    Docs did warn me that I would eventually get arthritis in that ankle.

    Love
    Hileena
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hello Sezeelson
    Suppose this is counted a a trauma injury, but like boomer say there is evidence that it can lead to an autoimmune...I found out that has a baby and a growing child I couldn't stay upright ...I know children fall alot but I was falling every few steps..and it continued into my teens, I always wounder if it is linked to my OA ..I was born in the 1950s so not much was done about it..I really do wish they would do more research into this....x
    Love
    Barbara
  • Sezeelson
    Sezeelson Member Posts: 133
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Thank you for your replies!

    It's a tough one ><
    After doing research (mainly because of my pets) I have also learned that vaccines can trigger an autoimmune response and ultimately disorders such as arthritis. I also suffer from IBS which is an autoimmune disease.

    There is nothing in my family, my mum's done a family tree, her side were all mental but no one seems to of suffered anything physical. My my parents parents are very healthy too.

    It's very odd but yeah, I guess I'll never know the truth as there isn't enough research!
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Nothing in life is guaranteed. Yes, arthritis runs in families but there are people on here (like yourself) where it has happened probably just because it can. Every life created is a gamble but, thanks to knowing stuff when I hit my child-bearing years, I knew that it was one I would not take. My childhood was utterly miserable health-wise and I couldn't bring myself to knowingly pass that risk on to either my children or possible grandchildren.

    I know that OA can result after joint trauma but I reckon the pre-disposition to auto-immune troubles is present from birth. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • Sezeelson
    Sezeelson Member Posts: 133
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    Nothing in life is guaranteed. Yes, arthritis runs in families but there are people on here (like yourself) where it has happened probably just because it can. Every life created is a gamble but, thanks to knowing stuff when I hit my child-bearing years, I knew that it was one I would not take. My childhood was utterly miserable health-wise and I couldn't bring myself to knowingly pass that risk on to either my children or possible grandchildren.

    I know that OA can result after joint trauma but I reckon the pre-disposition to auto-immune troubles is present from birth. DD

    Yeah that's true.
    Two of my sisters have asthma, so maybe i was predisposed to autoimmune problems even if I wasn't specifically predisposed to arthritis.

    There are much more variables to this then I first thought :/ lol!

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