Well, so many with similar experiences to myself. Apparent sinus infection being treated, with no success, then the roving joint pain. The pain would not be evident in the morning but as the day went on it would start and often, by the time I had eaten in the evening, it would be excruciating. Occasionally I could not even walk, only shuffle around like a baby (on my bottom). I tried to relieve the pain with ice packs, but this only helped a little. Fortunately it was this pain that triggered my GP to get the blood tests that led to me seeing a rheumatologist and my rapid diagnosis.

Paracetamol was used to relieve the pain until the pred and cyclophosphamide got on top of it - really only a few days. Since then, and I am now days from the first anniversary of my diagnosis, I have only had a couple of areas of light discomfort (right wrist and my knees), but this has really been little and intermittent. I am still on mtx and pred but confident enough to be on a business trip to the US (currently in a hotel in Houston) - long may this confidence prevail!