Hi Lauren-
I hate this. I have only had this once when I was perfectly healthy and was in high school. Nothing brought it on, so to speak, just one morning I was getting out of bed to get ready for high school and whammo...my ankles and knees felt tight. I looked down at my feet and they had these light red bumps on them.
It progressed to my knees and hips but was never on my trunk...although my hands did swell and were red and painful. The bumps never itched for me and they did darken as this ran its course. I was taken to cf clinic, rhumatologists, and different peds and the eventual diagnosis was my an over active immune response to the pseudo in my lungs. I don't remember if they said vasculitis, but they definitely felt it was a cf/immune response deal.
As mine healed, it was active for 3.5 to 4 weeks, they went from dark red to purple to pink. The weird thing was, my joints went from red to purple to GREEN...almost like when a bruise heals. I was completely immobile for 5 days...couldn't feed myself because my hands wouldn't work, couldn't walk to the bathroom...etc.
I hope you get better really soon and that this will be something your body can bring under control...you too Christian!!
I hate this. I have only had this once when I was perfectly healthy and was in high school. Nothing brought it on, so to speak, just one morning I was getting out of bed to get ready for high school and whammo...my ankles and knees felt tight. I looked down at my feet and they had these light red bumps on them.
It progressed to my knees and hips but was never on my trunk...although my hands did swell and were red and painful. The bumps never itched for me and they did darken as this ran its course. I was taken to cf clinic, rhumatologists, and different peds and the eventual diagnosis was my an over active immune response to the pseudo in my lungs. I don't remember if they said vasculitis, but they definitely felt it was a cf/immune response deal.
As mine healed, it was active for 3.5 to 4 weeks, they went from dark red to purple to pink. The weird thing was, my joints went from red to purple to GREEN...almost like when a bruise heals. I was completely immobile for 5 days...couldn't feed myself because my hands wouldn't work, couldn't walk to the bathroom...etc.
I hope you get better really soon and that this will be something your body can bring under control...you too Christian!!