Autoimmune disorders often damage the body in invisible ways. On top of that, some affect how you look on the outside too: You might develop a rash, for instance, or bald spots on your scalp.
A mysterious and unwelcome change in your appearance might send you straight to the doctor to figure out what’s going on. Consider psoriatic arthritis, a disease that sometimes begins with dry, itchy, scaly patches of skin (plaque psoriasis) before progressing to joint pain. “We’ll usually see patients first, before a general practitioner,” says Soheil Simzar, MD, a dermatologist in Santa Clarita, California, and clinical instructor of dermatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles.Â
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