brokeycrokey

I’m new to my journey with “inflammatory arthritis”, symptoms began at 19 and have slowly progressed to now 23 where I’ve only had my rheumatologist 6 months. I now have a malar rash I’m waiting for tests on, but I’m wondering if it’s possible to present as inflammatory arthritis, and wind up years later with lupus instead and still be responding well to methotrexate? (I’m really hoping to only have one autoimmune disease!)

Thank you for your help! Is there anything I can look for to help my doctors differentiate the two? I have a feeling my bloodwork won’t have changed much at this point, and I’ve only shown mildly elevated RF