It basically means that the doctors are completely stumped at putting a name to what I have. My blood tests show no rheumatoid factors, just indicators that there is an inflammatory process taking place in my body. So I have joint pains and swelling with no easily discernible cause, but no joint deformities and no permanent joint damage occuring.

I think the name they put to it is serum-negative rheumatoid polyarthritis, or something like that. It's med-speak for I hurt, and nobody knows exactly why or what I've got.

For now, we continue to take it all one step at a time...

BW