What Are The Signs And Symptoms Of Arthritis And Rheumatoid Arthritis?

 

Be informed and be aware of the early signs and symptoms of arthritis or rheumatoid arthritis.

Many people have arthritis symptoms and don’t realize it.  It takes a while to get full blown arthritis.

It’s something that gradually builds up and before you know it, you have arthritis and are seeing your doctor for medication.

Any medication you take does not address the cause of arthritis and will not improve your condition.

Arthritis symptoms can vary depending on what type of arthritis you have.  Arthritis can affect several parts of the body and can be caused by several different factors.

Although many of the arthritis symptoms may be similar, there are also some differences.  Here are a few examples of arthritis symptoms.

Ankylosing spondylitis is arthritis of the joints in the spine. 

It is also known as Marie-Strumpell disease and rheumatoid spondylitis.  This disorder affects multiple organs such as eyes, heart, lungs, skin, and gastrointestinal tract.

Symptoms of this arthritis include  low back and hip pain and stiffness; difficulty expanding the chest; pain in neck, shoulders, knees, and ankles; low-grade fever; fatigue; weight loss.

Initial arthritis symptoms are uncommon after the age of 30, although the patient may not be diagnosed until after then.

Bursitis is another form of arthritis. 

Bursitis usually affects the hip, shoulder, and elbow.  But it can also affect the knee, heel, or base of big toe.  Usually, this affects athletes, golfers, baseball players, or people who are out of shape and have poor posture.

This arthritis’ symptoms are pain and stiffness in the joint.  Arthritis symptoms become worse when the joint is used.  The joint may also be swollen and warm to the touch.

Juvenile arthritis symptoms are similar to the adult symptoms. 

There is a pain, swelling, and joint stiffness.  Symptoms can come and go.  Young children especially do not complain about their arthritis symptoms.  Parents may not notice until they see their child limping, avoiding physical activity, or acting unusually clumsy.

Osteoarthritis is the most common form in older people. 

It is brought on partly by long-term everyday use.  Depending on which part of the body is affected, arthritis symptoms may vary.

Most people with osteoarthritis in their fingers don’t even know about it unless an x-ray reveals deterioration in the cartilage.  Arthritis symptoms are standard with pain and swelling.  With osteoarthritis, even though arthritis never goes away, the pain fades over time.

A gout is a form of arthritis where the body has too much uric acid. 

The symptoms of gout arthritis are intense pain in the joint (usually the big toe).  It may also become red, swollen, and warm to the touch.

At times, gout can occur in the wrists, ankles, and knees.  Arthritis symptoms may not come back for several years.  But if crystals formed by the uric acid are left untreated, it can destroy part of the bone.

If you show any arthritis symptoms, then expect to have arthritis 4-10 year down the road.  Typically when people have symptoms, they just ignore them and actually don’t recognize them as arthritis symptoms.

Here is a list of arthritis symptoms that you need to look out for.  Each person will show different symptom because of the nutritional makeup will be different.

Each person will show different symptom because of the nutritional makeup will be different.

List of the Symptoms of Arthritis:

• Dry scalp with dandruff

• Dry skin which shows a whitish in different parts of the body

• Ear has no ear wax

• Fingernails are brittle or splitting

• Premature color change to gray

• Skin wrinkles in the neck area

• Ringing in the ears

• Complexion color is pale

• Stretch mark which appears after losing weight

• Rectum itching

• Accumulation of dried flakes at the corners of the eyes

• Nose is constantly itching

• Feeling stiffness when getting up in the morning

• Hands and legs get cold and clammy

• Bleeding gums

• Teeth have etched lines

• Varicose veins in the legs

• Being sterile

From this list of arthritis symptoms, you can see that many symptoms relate to your body being dry.  One of the causes of arthritis is the lack of essential oils.

If you lack oil in your body, you will have dryness throughout your body.  You will lack the oil that provides the lubrication to the body joints.

You can have one or many of these arthritis symptoms.  If you do, you can start at any age using the oils good for preventing arthritis.

You can start eliminating those foods that are detrimental to your joints and health.  Sometimes it takes a while to eliminate specific foods from you eating habits.  So the sooner you start the better.

Without the proper oil reaching your joints, your joints will slowly degrade.  The cartilage of your joints will be dry and this causes friction.

This friction causes heat that will help in the slow degradation of your joints.

Because the cartilage has no blood vessels, nutritional oils cannot be directly delivered its cells.  Oils have to be absorbed into the cartilage by osmosis.

Look over this list of arthritis symptoms and decide if you have one or more.  Remember, arthritis takes many years to appear after the symptom does.

Some of the first symptoms include things like knees cracking when you stand up, general pain or swelling around joints that last for more than two weeks.

You may also notice that pain in your joints increases as you move, also you may notice increased stiffness in your joints when you wake up in the morning, and your joints may appear red and feel warm to the touch.

Some other symptoms of Arthritis include fever, a sense of feeling tired all the time, even a feeling that you have the flu.  If you experience any of these symptoms, it is imperative that you see your doctor or physician at once.

Only a doctor can truly diagnose whether you have Arthritis and because there are over 100 forms of Arthritis, it is also important to determine which form of Arthritis you have.  The different forms of Arthritis have different symptoms as well.

It is also important to seek medical treatment as soon as possible since Arthritis has no known cure, the sooner you seek treatment and begin a regimen of care, and the better your results of managing your Arthritis will be.

Your treatment plan may include things such as a specific course of medicine, plenty of rest, adequate diet, and proper nutrition, losing weight if you are overweight, and in severe cases, surgery may be required.

Rheumatoid Arthritis or RA is an autoimmune disease, which is characterized by inflammation in the lining of the joints and only affects 1 to 2 percent of the population.

But the life-altering effects of this disease can be quite invasive.

If you suspect that you may have Rheumatoid Arthritis or if you have already been diagnosed with such, it is important to clearly understand the most common symptoms of this condition so that you can most effectively participate in the management of your healthcare.

RA can develop in children, teens, young adults and even those in middle age.  Currently, research indicates that women are more often diagnosed with RA than men.

Early symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis can at times be tough to diagnose since the early symptoms can go in and out of remission making it hard for your physician to see the physical symptoms of what you are describing and have been experiencing.

You might consider keeping a log of your symptoms so that your healthcare provider can see the pattern.

While symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis can differ from person to person, there is currently no single medical test that will definitively diagnose rheumatoid arthritis.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that results in chronic inflammation and pain in the smaller joints, such as those in your feet and hands.

It differs from the more common osteoarthritis in that rheumatoid arthritis doesn’t come from wear and tear on the joints but instead affects the synovial lining of the joints so that they swell and become inflamed.

Eventually, the cartilage wears away and you end up with the bony erosion of the joints and severe joint deformity.

As an autoimmune disorder, rheumatoid arthritis happens when the immune system attacks the tissues of the body, in this case, the tissues within your joints.

Some people with rheumatoid arthritis develop symptoms in other body areas when the autoantibodies affect the eyes, blood vessels, skin, and lungs.

Rheumatoid arthritis has been known to affect children but it is usually a disease affecting people older than 40 years of age.

Like all autoimmune disorders, the disease is more common in women than it is in men. Treatment, as you will see later, is focused on reducing your symptoms and preventing further damage to your joints.

If you have rheumatoid arthritis, these are some things you can expect:

• Joint stiffness that is usually worse in the morning but can last for several hours throughout the day

• Joints that are tender to the touch, warm, sometimes reddened and swollen. As mentioned, this usually involves the smaller joints of the body.

• Lumps of tissue beneath the skin near the joints. These are called rheumatoid nodules and may or may not be painful to the touch.

• Weight loss, fever, and fatigue. These are the natural effects of autoantibodies in the body tissues.

• Swollen PIP joints. These joints connect the hands to the fingers. Eventually, the joints of the feet are affected as well. Wrists, ankles, elbows, shoulders, and hips will eventually become affected by this disease. The disease is usually bilateral, meaning that they affect both sides of the body at the same time.

The symptoms that distinguish Rheumatoid Arthritis from other forms of arthritis are inflammation and soft-tissue swelling of many joints at the same time, also known as polyarthritis.

The joints are usually affected initially asymmetrically and then in a symmetrical fashion as the disease progresses.

The pain generally improves with use of the affected joints, and there is usually stiffness of all joints in the morning that lasts over 1 hour.

Thus, the pain of rheumatoid arthritis is usually worse in the morning compared to the classic pain of osteoarthritis where the pain worsens over the day as the joints are used.

As Rheumatoid Arthritis progresses the inflammatory activity leads to erosion and destruction of the joint surface, which impairs their range of movement and leads to deformity.

The fingers typically deviate towards the little finger and can assume unnatural shapes. Classical deformities in Rheumatoid Arthritis are the Boutonniere deformity and swan neck deformity.

The thumb may develop a “Z-Thumb” deformity with fixed flexion and subluxation at the metacarpophalangeal joint, leading to a “squared” appearance in the hand.

You may have steady symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis or may have symptoms that come and go.

Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by flares of increased joint inflammation with periods of time where the joints are less affected.

The longer you have rheumatoid arthritis, the more likely it is that you will have joint deformities that do not go away.

If you have some of these symptoms, contact your doctor.  Treatments are always more effective if they are caught in the early stages.  You can also get more information on arthritis symptoms from the Arthritis Foundation.

 

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