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Peripheral Joint Pain, Diarrhea, Arthritis Test Negative

I have been dealing with perrifferal joint pain , severe SI joint pain and costachondritis thoracic back and neck pain , for years. The only definitive diagnosis I have received is collagenous colitis after a three month bout of diareah. Is there any connection? I have been tested for arthritis many times over the last 12 years with consistent negative results.
posted on Tue, 27 Mar 2012
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It looks like that you are having some kind of autoimmune disease with negative blood investigation. It is called seronegative arthritis and it should be treated same like a normal arthritis except that it has slight better prognosis. I
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Peripheral Joint Pain, Diarrhea, Arthritis Test Negative

It looks like that you are having some kind of autoimmune disease with negative blood investigation. It is called seronegative arthritis and it should be treated same like a normal arthritis except that it has slight better prognosis. I