I wasn't sure until I've seen enough images from my various surgeries to really understand how PVNS spreads in the lining of the joint. First it just appears as a little red spot that has settled somewhere in your joint but it's not just one little red spot, its many. Each little red spot starts growing. It seems to graph itself into each other as it grabs onto anything it can in the joint lining.
When looking at the last MRI it appeared I had a perfectly round mass in the image. I assumed that was a localized nodule but in fact the images show it was an area that had been effected by PVNS that had taken time growing in that one place. It was growing in other places but the doctor said that it wasn't "everywhere" like it was only a year and a half before. It seemed to grow back faster after the first surgery. But slower after the second.
I am not sure if the lack of growth had anything to do with my attempts to apply frankincense diligently, which I admit I'm not all that proficient at.
Still no information has been found as to the cause of PVNS or much less a cure at this point.
