Hi Joe,
Sorry to be so slow in replying... I haven't checked the forum in a while now. I have got my CT scan tomorrow, so hopefully I will know more after that. I have been sent to it by the pulmonologist that I saw a few weeks ago. i told her that I suspected bronchiectasis and although she wasn't convinced, she did accept that it is linked with inflammatory conditions (hence agreeing to send me for a CT scan). I have also been given a brown steroid inhaler, which makes it much easier to cough up the stuff. One little cough, and it is out! I still seem to have the sinusitis problems though. I am going to have the allergy tests at some point, but there is quite a waiting list I believe.
The cough started around the same time as the arthritis - so I am guessing something was going on with my body at that time! It started in my one knee and I was unable to walk for a couple of months and then spread to a toe. It kept coming and going for a while and the following year spread to another joint. It is much better now, as I religiously stay off all dairy (and mainly stay of gluten too when i can). I was on sulfasalazine for some time, but want to try for a family, so wanted to be off drugs to do that - hence why I decided to try changing my diet. If I have dairy, it does cause problems (however, even off it, it is aggravated a little by cold etc). Feel free to ask anything about it.
x