Rheumatoid Arthritis With Negative Rheumatoid Factor - is it possible?

Last week asked my cases please answer me Dr.

I'm relieved to hear this. I have struggled for years with pain. As I age, it's worse. I only hope I can get a better treatment.

When I lived in Arizona, my rheumatologist diagnosed me with serum negative RA and treated me with methotrexate (I also have Sjogrens syndrome). When I moved back to MN my rheumatologist told me he thought that diagnosis was wrong and stopped treating me for RA. Now my joints are back to swelling and being painful, especially my shoulders. It's a bummer it's more difficult to get an exact and clear diagnosis. 😢

Please tell us about having CCP ANTI BODIES POSITIVE and RHEUMATOID FACTOR NEGATIVE ! Thank you.

DMARD only atack inflammation, not the underlying disease virus. I hope leading doctors are working on developing arthritis drugs 🥺. and the question: can methotrexate cause inflammation of the feet? because my feet are burning. 🥺

I need to make an appointment with you SOON... you seem to listen and very intellectual 👏 🎉

Thank you so much for this video!

My mom has had signs of RA for over 30 years but was only diagnosed earlier this year with RA since her bloodwork didn‘t show signs of rheumatoid factors. She only got diagnosed because the inflammation she had this spring was so blatantly obvious, the doctors couldn‘t ignore it anymore. But yet the doctor she was referred to afterwards for continued treatment (a seasoned doctor) went „No! This can‘t be RA because there is no rheumatoid factor!“.
After that she went back to her GP for treatment rather than a specialist. 🙄

I too have signs of RA and Lupus without conclusive bloodwork. I do have elevated antiimmune antibodies, but they are nonspecific. Yet the clinical symptoms are quite obvious… have been for almost 10 years, but still almost every doctor went for the typical „Young people can‘t have that, so it is all a mental health issue“ route.
Now I‘m not so young anymore (41) and have suffered for about 20 years in total…
Maybe now that my mom has been diagnosed and responds well to treatment, I can finally get a diagnosis too.
And if doctors still go the „It can‘t be because there‘s no rheumatoid factors“ route, I have professional and reliable sources that say otherwise.

Again, thank you for the videos. For the information you provide for people like me. This ist so important!

I love and like this Dr ....help me a lot too lucky to find my rheumatogist he is good and my medicine works it's methotrexate once a wk and cosentyx once every after 28 days I'm psoA

Again thank you for your videos Doc

Thank you for explaining each autoimmune disease in a clear distinctive manner. I appreciate your videos so much! Do you have a video on punch biopsies for diagnosis?

Been RF negative for 2+ years, had a lot of joint pain, only given HRT, not helped at all. Am in UK. Not sure if they understand seronegative RA. Irony is I've looked after my husband 20 years, he has RA. He says to me 'that's the same as me' when I have pain in a certain area. Also have OA in my hands. My hands are more deformed than his, finally been referred to a Rheumatologist. Thanks for your informative videos.

Thank you very much Dr.Diana for this explanation..
Please can send to me some refrences in Psoriatic arthritis to complete my PhD research my regards and appreciation to you

Thank you for this ❤was just diagnosed with fibromyalgia and inflammatory arthritis, concerning seronegative rheumatoid arthritis. Had no clue what this meant. My dad has PMR, so this helps me know what could* be a possibility in years, and what to watch for now. As we figure this out in time. Appreciate you!!

I was negative for regulators factor but positive for anti-ccp autobodies. After a year if hydroxychlorequin use my antibodies went down to undetectable so I stopped the hydroxychlorequin. Now a year later I’m in severe pain so going bank in.

my RA is positive but i dont have any symptoms... what will be the reason? should i go for treatment?