What are the initial symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis?

Rheumatoid arthritis is currently the most serious of all chronic joint diseases. It seriously threatens people's health, is prone to deformity and even cripples and kills. If it can be detected early, it can effectively control the development and even the disease.

In order to help you detect rheumatoid arthritis as early as possible, here are some ways to identify rheumatoid fingers. The early symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis are as follows:

Morning stiffness: In the early stage of rheumatoid arthritis, patients often show a stiff feeling in their fingers when they wake up in the morning, which gradually relieves after activity. As the pain progresses, morning stiffness becomes worse and lasts longer, up to more than 1 hour.

Fear of cold: The patient's fingers are particularly sensitive to cold, and it is easy to turn white, purple, numb, and even feel pain when exposed to cold water. This is due to the fact that the digital arteries are prone to spasm when exposed to cold, which is medically known as Raynaud's phenomenon.

Proximal: rheumatoid arthritis is best developed in the proximal (proximal trunk) interphalangeal joints, which may be invaded but never the distal interphalangeal joints. Many non-specialists often misdiagnose proliferative arthritis of the distal interphalangeal joints and even large bone joint disease as rheumatoid.

Ulnar deviation: the thumb side is the finger side, and the little finger side is the ulnar side. In the early stage of rheumatoid rheumatoid, the finger can be deviated to the ulnar side, while in normal people, it is mostly slightly deviated to the finger side, especially the little finger.

Amyotrophy: Rheumatoid patients often have phalangeal muscle atrophy in the early stages, with an enlarged proximal interphalangeal joint forming what is medically called"Fusiform"\"Eggplant-shaped"Change.

Pigmentation: on the dorsal side of the lesion's interphalangeal joint, pigmentation is often seen with dark brown (black). At the same time, local** may be keratinized and thickened.

Symmetry: Rheumatoid arthritis is a prominent feature of joint damage that is symmetrical in both hands. Sometimes only the proximal joint of the middle finger is seen in the early stage, but it should also be symmetrical damage of the left and right middle fingers, and rarely unilateral, the latter is common in traumatic arthritis and tuberculous arthritis.

Such a disease is a stubborn disease, ** is very difficult, but Chinese medicine can achieve the purpose of greatly reducing the symptoms or disappearing symptoms, oral Chinese medicine can have an effect, but eating too much will damage the spleen and stomach, causing other diseases, it is recommended that you can use the method of external application of Chinese medicine. Of course, it mainly depends on what plaster is chosen. The plaster is different, the effect is not the same, it is recommended to use the plaster made of pure Chinese medicine "Xianggongfang's Penetrating Bone Patch" to **.

The medicinal properties are mild, the medicinal effect is strong, it can be absorbed through the skin, it plays a good role in opening the body and penetrating the bones, relaxing the muscles and invigorating the blood, dispelling wind and removing cold, and gradually relieving the symptoms until the symptoms disappear

Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences - Liu Yuzhang - Department of Spine - Chief Physician - Symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.

1. Joint weakness and mobility disorders.

Joint pain, muscle atrophy, decreased range of motion, and soft-tissue contractures can cause joint weakness, resulting in legs that often go weak when walking, and in severe cases, even unable to fully straighten or unable to move. Acute inflammation usually resolves in 2-4 weeks without sequelae, but it is often reversed. If rheumatic activity affects the heart, myocarditis and even residual heart valve disease can occur.

In the late stage of rheumatism, there is restriction of large joints, difficulty walking, joint deformity, etc., and severe even disability and paralysis.

2. Joint swelling and suffering.

Joint swelling is a sign of synovitis or surrounding soft tissue inflammation that varies in severity and is caused by fluid accumulation in the joint cavity or hypertrophy of the synovium. Swelling caused by bone enlargement, which is hard like bone when pressed and cannot be moved; Swelling caused by hyperplasia of intra-articular or peri-articular soft tissues that does not feel the same as healthy tissue; A fluctuating sensation of swelling due to fluid or blood. The level of joint distress is often associated with the severity of joint swelling, with the more pronounced the swelling, the more severe the affliction.

3. Restricted Activities.

When rheumatoid arthritis is severe, joint mobility is limited, and the degree of limitation is related to swelling, pain, and damage to the joints and surrounding structures. Approximately 90% of patients have finger joint involvement, especially the proximal interphalangeal joint, which is easily inflamed, and the distal interphalangeal joint is rarely affected.

4. Joint pain.

Joint pain is the primary symptom of rheumatoid arthritis, and pain can occur in joints all over the body, but it is more common to involve large joints, such as knees, ankles, shoulders, wrists, etc. Typically presents with symmetrical, wandering pain with redness, swelling, and hot inflammatory manifestations. Usually the symptoms of acute inflammation last for 2 to 4 weeks to subside, and the symptoms of one joint subside, and the symptoms of the other joint may appear, and there are several joints at the same time.

Joint symptoms are more affected by climate change, and joint pain often occurs before the weather turns cold or rains. After the acute phase, there are no joint deformations, which are different from rheumatoid arthritis.

Rheumatoid arthritis begins with pain in the joints, which is not very severe and becomes more and more painful as the disease progresses. The pain is especially severe on rainy days.

Common symptoms include joint pain, which is exacerbated on rainy days, and leg pain becomes more pronounced as joint pain makes it difficult to walk.

In the early stage, the symptoms will not be very obvious, and the main symptoms will be pain, redness, swelling and soreness in the hands, feet, and knee joints.

Patients with rheumatoid disease can have joint swelling and pain in the early stage, and the most commonly affected parts are the facet joints of the hands and feet, especially the proximal interphalangeal joints, metacarpophalangeal joints and wrists, which are relatively easy to be affected, showing joint swelling and pain, which lasts for weeks or even months, and generally lasts for a long time. As long as the local joint lesion is not well controlled, symptoms may persist.

In addition, it may also be accompanied by morning stiffness, which can occur after waking up in the morning or after a long period of immobility, which is also a frequent clinical symptom. Other patients may have subcutaneous nodules, called rheumatoid nodules, which may have elevated inflammatory markers and abnormal autoantibodies, which are symptoms that may occur in patients with early rheumatoid disease.

If you have pain in your joints, go to the rheumatology and immunology department of a major hospital and take blood for a test to know if you have rheumatoid disease.