[Bryant]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Well, this info raises about a hundred questions.
IMO, this is very unlikely to be osteoarthritis, it does not come on this quickly. Too bad you have to wait weeks for answers, your primary care physician most likely would have drawn the appropriate bloodwork before starting steroids, but urgent care centers are more "single encounter' oriented. But just the fact that they started steroids indicates they did not feel it was osteoarthritis either. Did the steroids do anything to help?
This is eerily similar to my wife's situation. We moved here in November, everything was normal, she was playing golf and all other normal activities. Then overnight, on Jan 22, she developed an acute polyarticular polyarthropathy (joint swelling and pain). Her hands were normal the day before I took these photos. In her case we gave her huge steroid doses expected total improvement in 48 hours and got nothing.

He went to urgi-care for pain in his shoulder due to a fall (we thought). That's what the steroids were prescribed for and YES, the steroids helped him overall tremendously !!!