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Re: /NSSP/Short survey: Inflammatory Joint Disease BlackAdder Send a noteboard - 30/09/2010 09:17:37 PM
Recently, my right hand and arm have been swelling up and hurting for no discernable reason. My doctor ordered blood tests for me, so I have to wait a couple of weeks to find out what's going on.

A couple weeks? That doesn't seem right

That, however, was on the assumption it was probably a one-off occurence, so we didn't discuss what might be the problem. Today it happened again, so I saw the duty doctor at the surgery. He said that it was likely to be an inflammatory joint disease. After looking that up it certainly fits and seems likely.

Is that his explanation of rheumatoid arthritis? That doesn't seem right, either...

Well, I don't know about you, but I hope he's not right. :P

It can get pretty crazy, plus, it usually affects middle-aged to elderly people (esp. women) and doesn't really have this episodic pattern you described. It's more of a gradual worsening, bilaterally, usually starting from your hands/feet moving on to shoulders/knees/hips/neck (but NOT your back).

I can post the text of a Harrison's chapter on RA if you really want, but yeah it probably isn't (unless the blood test results support it -- you never know; that's why they love to run blood tests, not because they're secretly vampires or something :P).

So.

Do any of you here have that problem?

No, and I hope not to.

If so, how do you deal with it? When my joints are swollen I cannot hold a pen or use a mouse or type very easily. How do you manage to do those things in daily life?

I'm not sure... if it happens, probably try to get the swelling to go away. Moving probably irritates it more. Ideally, stop it from swelling at all, but that involves knowing what caused it.

Obviously, it mightn't be that, but either way if this keeps happening I need to know how to deal with it. My daily job is using a computer, writing notes, etc. Swollen joints make that very difficult.

Yeah, hopefully it isn't.
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/NSSP/Short survey: Inflammatory Joint Disease Rebekah - 30/09/2010 08:07:56 PM 683 Views
I've never dealt with it personally, but I hope it doesn't end up affecting you too much -hug- LadyLorraine - 30/09/2010 08:16:41 PM 466 Views
Re: Rebekah - 30/09/2010 09:47:04 PM 467 Views
Re: /NSSP/Short survey: Inflammatory Joint Disease BlackAdder - 30/09/2010 09:17:37 PM 461 Views
No no, they're not synonyms. Rebekah - 30/09/2010 09:28:50 PM 688 Views
what she said. LadyLorraine - 30/09/2010 09:36:34 PM 530 Views
Re: what she said. BlackAdder - 30/09/2010 09:57:05 PM 464 Views
well. I'm not talking about the hyoid bone LadyLorraine - 01/10/2010 01:50:31 AM 542 Views
Re: No no, they're not synonyms. BlackAdder - 30/09/2010 09:43:07 PM 521 Views
Re: No no, they're not synonyms. Rebekah - 30/09/2010 09:46:09 PM 463 Views
Re: No no, they're not synonyms. BlackAdder - 30/09/2010 10:04:35 PM 468 Views
sounds like fun random thoughts - 30/09/2010 09:35:04 PM 470 Views
Re: sounds like fun Rebekah - 30/09/2010 09:44:55 PM 453 Views
I hope it is not a result of the knitting Camilla - 30/09/2010 10:09:10 PM 504 Views
Um. I don't think so. Rebekah - 30/09/2010 10:18:10 PM 533 Views
No idea, but hope it's something correctable and you're feeling better soon. Joel - 30/09/2010 11:17:04 PM 432 Views
Do you eat enough cold water fish? (beat.) - 01/10/2010 05:48:09 AM 504 Views
Er. Maybe? Rebekah - 01/10/2010 08:15:23 AM 746 Views
Oh!, oh, I see. I get it! I'm a clever girl! (beat.) - 01/10/2010 10:55:55 AM 660 Views
what's wrong with seed oil? LadyLorraine - 01/10/2010 01:50:20 PM 461 Views
There's nothing wrong with it - it's good stuff - but fish oils contain much more DHA. (beat.) - 01/10/2010 05:31:48 PM 575 Views
Amputation is probably the best solution snoopcester - 01/10/2010 11:05:26 AM 481 Views
my supervisor uses one of those joystick things LadyLorraine - 01/10/2010 01:50:48 PM 475 Views
Joystick wouldn't be good for this problem. Rebekah - 01/10/2010 01:54:23 PM 439 Views
I've tried to use one snoopcester - 01/10/2010 02:22:40 PM 464 Views
Similarly Sareitha Sedai - 01/10/2010 01:51:41 PM 606 Views
Indeed, the Occupational Health person who looked after me yesterday told me about those. Rebekah - 01/10/2010 01:55:10 PM 499 Views
I have considered it, but decided the cons outweighed the pros. Rebekah - 01/10/2010 01:54:00 PM 496 Views
you don't want hooks? snoopcester - 01/10/2010 02:26:50 PM 488 Views
Re: Amputation is probably the best solution Palatine - 01/10/2010 06:35:23 PM 460 Views
I dont know anything about this. Avendesora - 02/10/2010 02:17:10 AM 585 Views
Re: /NSSP/Short survey: Inflammatory Joint Disease Queen_of_Borg - 05/10/2010 07:04:48 PM 519 Views
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