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I recently mailed a form letter to my family, explaining my
challenges. I'd like to share it with you:

"I wanted to send you all some information of Psoriatic Arthritis in
hopes that you'd understand better what is going on with me and my
health. Arthritis is a disease of the joints and connective tissue
while psoriasis is a skin disease. Both are chronic, both involve
inflammation, genetic and environmental factors are contributors and
they sometimes occur together to become Psoriatic Arthritis. Psoriasis
is characterized by abnormal skin patches made up of skin cells
reproducing too rapidly and not maturing properly. One out of three
people with psoriasis has a family member who also has the disease.
Diagnosis of psoriasis is fairly easy, skin lesions are visible and
sometimes fingernails/toenails are used to help with diagnosis, as
they become pitted, thick and raised from the nail bed. 10 to 30% of
people with psoriasis also develop arthritis. The arthritis typically
follows one of four patterns:

1) Pain and inflammation of single, large joints, such as the knee as
well as finger and toe joints.�