Hand arthritis and severe back pain

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jan8787
jan8787 Member Posts: 16
edited 10. Jul 2025, 15:33 in Living with Arthritis archive

Hello everyone 

I am 62

Thank you for letting me join the community ,I won’t go into all my story a lot as very complicated but I spoke to a lovely lady on the helpline today and that’s how I joined the group.


I have fibromyalgia/ ME and osteoporosis of my spine but what know i have now started lasted April it had nothing to do with those conditions but the pain I have in my hand as had a x ray could be arthritis, the severe back pain and muscle spasms started last April, out of the blue I had to call paramedics as I woke up and couldn’t move my legs and was told it was a fibromyalgia flare and to see my doc but I couldn’t see him due to covid and still not able too but I knew it wasn’t, the spasms thank goodness now have gone but the back pain hasn’t and moves into different areas so I never know each day how I will be,my right hand x ray, doc thinks it’s arthritis as i managed a five minute chat to the doc but he said he isn’t sure, I did ask some questions to him but just said physio will know that and just useless so will ring PALS up as it’s nearly 15 months now and no better. 


all I have seen is physio as never seen a doc all done on the phone which is crazy I know, but it’s how it has been, physio after the third time said it’s not fibromyalgia which I knew that but she didn’t know what so I eventually had a MRI of my neck and spine this April it showed I have wear and tear of my neck and it’s affecting a disk.

I have Wedge fractures all over my back he said from the MRI showed I have cracks in the middle of my back 

Lower back nerves bulging out.

Multiple levels of degenerative changes in my back and neck.

Lower back two discs bulging out but not touching nerves.

Inflammation of the sacroiliac joint but the inflammation they don’t know why so that’s why I have to have another MRI.

I can’t bend without pain and can hardly walk and have a hump now as well and it doesn’t help confidence as I have know.

Sorry for long post.

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