I may have said it wrong- Stills is a name given to systemic onset juvenile inflammatory arthritis, its a type of JIA. Peds rheum is exactly who yall should be seeing and they should be able to Advise if her symptoms could be vaccine related or completely different. Keep us updatedSounds like JIA. Episodic rashes and fevers fit. Ferritin supports the diagnosis.Youre mom is wrong and this absolutely sounds like rheumatoid arthritis Im sorry to say. She probably doesnt understand that rheumatoid arthritis is not just joint pain but can be fever feeling generally sick last week the interesting rash that youre describing and other auto immune future so its not like osteoarthritis that you would see in an older person for example
We are a little south of Albany. Are JIA and Stills technically the same thing? We Have an appointment with pediatric rheumatologist next week. Could the reaction have been caused by a vaccine? She got it two weeks before the symptoms started