I started out in Junior high with Juvenile rheumatoid then in 2016 I was diagnosed with mixed connective tissue disease. I had a rash called Granuloma Annulare in my 30's, but no one that was treating me for it told me it was a mixed connective tissue disease until I went to a rheumatologist. Then later was diagnosed with RA then sjogrens.

Robin, I had a tendon rupture in my elbow. I also had nerve compression in my forearm at the same time. I had surgery to repair the tendon and decompress the nerve. The decompression did not work the first time, so I had a second surgery for that. When I woke up I was in terrible pain and my hand did not work at all. The second surgery caused serious nerve damage. I was unable to use my hand at all for about 8 months. It was very scary. I'm glad it was able to wake back up! Now the other elbow is on the same path. I am doing everything I can short of yelling at someone to get an MRI to see if it has started to rupture. I'm pretty sure it has, but hopefully not enough to have surgery. My other elbow was 50% ruptured before they would do an MRI. It was months of dealing with it because they kept telling me it was just tendonitis. I knew that it was worse, but no one would listen. So, all of this to say, do what you have to do before it gets to bad to heal on its own. I guess my problem was this happened before my diagnosis and I hadn't had any injuries to explain why it happened. Just take care of those tendons!

I hope it. Is along time

I agree with the answer above. I have had all the issues listed. It has taken time to develop but the medications I'm on has slowed damage down a lot. The bone erosion has been a big issue for me. I was told last year the nodules found in my hands have created issues that resemble another health issue. Sorry I can't remember the name brain fog lol. It's where your hands don't work as well when you do repetitive movements such as typing for long time. Anyway for that usually surgery is an option. With the nodules surgery doesn't work. If you try surgery it will cause more damage than good. Eventually you will lose use of your hands when the nodules get bigger. I have been lucky in that it has been almost 40 years before the nodules appeared. Some of these problems are scary but if you take your meds hopefully it will be a long time before you have to deal with these problems.