what are the symptoms of rheumatism?
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the symptoms come & go \nmainly oedema in the hands & fingers .. pain .. in the shoulders .. feeling that as if you have broken back ..especially when you woke up
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I found this by searching for "LUPUS" on the internet.\n\nLupus may be hard to diagnose. It’s often mistaken for other diseases. For this reason, lupus has been called the “great imitator.” The signs of lupus differ from person to person. Some people have just a few signs; others have more.\n\nCommon signs of lupus are:\n\nRed rash or color change on the face, often in the shape of a butterfly across the nose and cheeks \n\n\nPainful or swollen joints \n\n\nUnexplained fever \n\n\nChest pain with deep breathing \n\n\nSwollen glands \n\n\nExtreme fatigue (feeling tired all the time) \n\n\nUnusual hair loss (mainly on the scalp) \n\n\nPale or purple fingers or toes from cold or stress \n\n\nSensitivity to the sun \n\n\nLow blood count \n\n\nDepression, trouble thinking, and/or memory problems \n\n\nOther signs are mouth sores, unexplained seizures (convulsions), “seeing things” (hallucinations), repeated miscarriages, and unexplained kidney problems.
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Well a big indicator is feeling like you've been run over by a Mack truck. There are like 18 points that a doctor can test to see if you have fibro. If you have 12 or more then you probably do. It feels like you've got the flu but in your muscles, not your bones. You wake up as tired or more tired than when you went to sleep and your sleep is NOT restful. You get really sensitive to anything touching you.\nAlthough it is classified as an autoimmune disorder- it actually is a liver disorder. Fortunately, if you do a liver cleanse it will help you feel better. After the cleanse take a calcium and magnesium supplement. It helps.
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Try primrose oil.  I researched the internet, and it said it helps for rheumatoid arthritis so I tried it.  It works.
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Muscle symptoms—muscle weakness, leg dragging, stiffness, a tendency to drop things, a feeling of heaviness, clumsiness, or a lack of coordination. \nVisual symptoms—blurred, foggy, or hazy vision, eyeball pain (especially with movement), blindness, or double vision. Optic neuritis (a sudden loss of vision and eye pain) is a fairly common initial symptom, occurring in up to 23% of those who develop MS. 2 \nLess common early symptoms include:\n\nSensory symptoms—tingling, a pins-and-needles sensation, numbness, a bandlike tightness around the trunk or limbs, or electrical sensations moving down the back and limbs. \nBalance symptoms—lightheadedness or dizziness, and a spinning feeling (vertigo). \nAs MS progresses, symptoms may include stiff movement (spasticity), tremors, pain, difficulty controlling urination, depression, and difficulty thinking clearly (cognitive impairment).
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Rheumatoid arthritis is an auto-immune condition where the body thinks that certain tissues, including joints, are foreign and attacks them.  Certain infections may increase the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, but rheumatoid arthritis can occur as a result of genetic predisposition.  HLA-B27 and HLA-DR4 are predisposing factors to Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.\n\nRheumatoid Arthritis can be treated using systemic corticosteroids that reduce the bodies immune response.  Side effects are weight gain, increase risk of infections, among others. NSAIDs are also used to decrease inflammation.  Chronic use of NSAIDs may cause gastric ulcers.
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Abdominal pain\nBack pain\nBronchitis\nBruising and bleeding under the skin\nChest pain\nCoughing\nDepression\nDiarrhea\nDifficulty breathing\nDizziness\nFatigue\nFluid retention and swelling\nFlu-like symptoms\nHeadache\nHigh BP\nHigh cholesterol\nIndigestion\nInflammation\nItching\nJoint pain\nNausea\nPain\nPurple discoloration of skin\nUpper respiratory tract infection\nUrinary tract infection
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Lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE) is a chronic disease that can cause inflammation, pain, and tissue damage throughout the body. Lupus is an autoimmune disease, in which a person's immune system attacks its own tissues as though they were foreign substances. If you develop serious lupus, you may have problems with your kidneys, heart, lungs, or blood cells. \n\nAlthough some people with lupus have mild symptoms, the disease can become severe. For most people, ongoing monitoring and treatment can control symptoms and prevent serious organ damage. \n\nThere are five types of lupus erythematosus: systemic, discoid/cutaneous, subacute cutaneous, drug-induced systemic, and neonatal. This topic focuses on systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the most common and serious type of lupus. \n\nWhat are lupus symptoms like?\nLupus symptoms vary widely, and they come and go. Common symptoms are fatigue, joint pain or swelling (arthritis), fever, and skin rash (especially with sun exposure). Mouth sores and hair loss may occur. Over time, people with lupus develop nervous system symptoms, most commonly migraine headaches. Periods of time when symptoms worsen are called relapses or flares. Periods of time when symptoms improve are called remissions. Lupus symptoms rarely disappear completely.
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Too many possibilities ... but given your gender age and just a blind hunch, ask your doctor about RA and SLE. He might want to do some blood work and check your ANA values.\n\nDo your joints feel warm to the touch?\nDo you have any unexplained rashes?\n\nYou can send an email to me if you wish to give me more info.
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Rheumatism or Rheumatic disorder is a non-specific term for medical problems affecting the heart, bones, joints, kidney, skin and lung. The study of, and therapeutic interventions in, such disorders is called rheumatology.\n\nThe term "rheumatism" is still used in colloquial speech and historical contexts, but is no longer frequently used in medical or technical literature; it would be fair to say that there is no longer any recognized disorder simply called "rheumatism". The traditional term covers such a range of different problems that to ascribe symptoms to "rheumatism" is not to say very much: arthritis and rheumatism between them cover at least 200 different conditions.\n\nA vast number of traditional herbal remedies were recommended for "rheumatism". Modern medicine, both conventional and complementary, recognises that the different rheumatic disorders have different causes (and several of them have multiple causes) and require different kinds of treatment. Most sources dealing with rheumatism tend to focus on arthritis. However "non-articular rheumatism", also known as "regional pain syndrome" or "soft tissue rheumatism" can cause just as much discomfort and difficulty.\n\nThe major rheumatic disorders currently recognised include:\n\nOsteoarthritis \nRheumatoid arthritis \nRheumatic heart disease (Rheumatic fever) \nShoulder pain \nNeck pain \nBack pain \nFibromyalgia \nAnkylosing spondylitis \nPsoriatic arthritis \nSystemic lupus erythematosus \nPolymyalgia rheumatica \nTenosynovitis \nCapsulitis \nBursitis \nRheumatic fever. \nAlthough these disorders probably have little in common in terms of their epidemiology, they do share two characteristics: they cause chronic (though often intermittent) pain, and they are difficult to treat. They are also, collectively, very common. The very long list of supposed herbal remedies for rheumatism no doubt reflects the intractable nature of the problems it involves, and so, perhaps, does the fact that are no fewer than six patron saints for sufferers from rheumatism: Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Saint Colman, Saint James the Greater, Saint Killian, Saint Servatus, and Saint Totnan.\n\nInitial therapy of the major rheumatological diseases is with paracetamol and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), members of which are ibuprofen and diclofenac. Often, stronger analgesics are required.
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The following is from webmd:\n\n What is rheumatoid arthritis? \n\nRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a relatively common disease of the joints. In rheumatoid arthritis, the membranes or tissues (synovial membranes) lining the joints become inflamed (synovitis). Over time, the inflammation may destroy the joint tissues, leading to disability. Rheumatoid arthritis affects women twice as often as men, and frequently begins between the ages of 40 and 60. \n\nThere are many types of arthritis (disease of the joints). Rheumatoid arthritis causes inflammation of the synovial membrane of the joints. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis affects young children. For more information, see the topic Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. Osteoarthritis, a more common type of arthritis, has different symptoms and requires different treatment. For more information, see the topic Osteoarthritis.\n..........................................\nAS you can see, none of this deals with why or how.\n\nThat's because 'arthritis' is a catagorical name given to a set of certain symptoms.\n\nMany doctors simply  diagnose symptoms and treat them conveniently with drugs. "Next."\n\nI found an article at this website to be interesting, using the words "arthritis spreads" in the word search:  www.cureyourarthritis.typepad.com
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My best friends husband has rheumatoid arthritis but he never had pain in his ribs always in his joints. He sees a specialist for it he was young when he got it in his mid 30's. that's all I know.
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I have fibromyalgia, and many of your symptoms sound familiar . The uncontrolled shaking, though, sounds like something more is going on. \n\nI do experience uncontrolled shivering sometimes, especially after extreme stress - like going into shock. That's definitely not a daily thing, though. My hands shake just about all the time, but I wouldn't call that "uncontrolled shaking."\n\nHow long have you experienced these symptoms? Have you been to your general practitioner? Please, make an appointment to see a doctor as soon as possible if you haven't already done so.\n\nFibromyalgia is a diagnosis of exclusion, of course, so it wouldn't be made 'til everything else was ruled out. Rheumatoid arthritis will show up on tests.\n\nGood luck!
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Do you have rheumatoid arthritis?  Morning stiffness is one of the classic symptoms - you will feel more stiff and painful in the morning.  With osteo arthritis, I imagine you may also get uncomfortable overnight as well, though I have less experience with it so I'm not sure.  It helps to get moving right away to loosen up the joints.  Also, if you take anti-inflammatories for the pain, they may take a while to start working when you take them in the morning.\n\nIf you have rheumatoid arthritis, and your doctor wants to put you on some of the newer drugs like Enbrel, they can really help.  I used to have an hour of morning stiffness or more, now I've been on Enbrel for six months, and I have none.  Ask your doctor if there is anything you can do to help with the pain in the morning, but in my experience, unless you are lucky enough to do well on meds, you just have to wait it out every morning.
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hi there ,, this is what i could bring to u about fibromyalgia ,,,,, hope it's useful \n\nFibromyalgia is a chronic disorder that causes widespread pain and tenderness in the muscles and soft tissue ,,,\n\nsymptoms of fibromyalgia :\n\nMost people with fibromyalgia endure cycles of muscle, soft tissue, and back or neck pain, \nsleep problems, and \noften debilitating fatigue. \nFibromyalgia is also characterized by the presence of up to 18 specific tender points on the body—these are painful only when you press directly on them.\n\nAlthough less common than pain, fatigue, and sleep problems, a variety of other symptoms may occur as well. These include headaches, morning stiffness, difficulty concentrating, a circulatory problem that affects the small blood vessels of the skin (Raynaud's phenomenon), and irritable bowel syndrome. As with many conditions that cause chronic pain, anxiety and depression are common in people with fibromyalgia and may make symptoms worse.\n\nSymptoms tend to come and go. Periods when they are constant (flares) may be followed by periods when they are absent (remissions). Some people find that cold, damp weather, emotional stress, overexertion, and other factors make their symptoms worse
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Definitely!  It can also cause pain at any other time of the day or night.  My mother has rheumatoid arthritis and is in constant pain which seems to intensify at night.  Sounds as if you need to visit a rheumatologist for further evaluation.
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I don't know how old she is but, a doctor can give her a blood test to see if she has rheumatism ( swelling from fluids in the joints from cold weather) or arthritis from just the opposite.\n   In the meantime it could be from several other types of problems, the doctor is the one to see here. \n   In the meantime have her wear warm woolen mittens, they're the best for warmth, in the cold weather, anything below fifty degrees.