What are the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis

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I'm an office worker. These days when I went to work, I found that my hand joints were very painful. I felt that my fingers were a little swollen and began to be inflexible. I was worried about whether I had rheumatoid arthritis. Today, let me talk about the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.

What are the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis

Symptom 1: joint pain, morning stiffness patients get up in the morning or rest for a long time, the joint is sticky like stiffness, activity can be relieved or disappeared. Morning stiffness in rheumatoid arthritis is the most prominent, can last for several hours, in other arthritis is shorter.

Symptom 2: the onset of rheumatoid arthritis is acute. The major joints involved are large joints, most of which begin to invade the joints of lower limbs. The symptoms of knee and ankle joints are the most common, followed by shoulder, elbow and wrist. The small joints of hand and foot are rare. The joint lesions are multiple and wandering, and the local inflammation of joints is obvious.

Symptom 3: the existing red, swelling, heat, pain, tenderness and limited activity, lasting for a short time, often subsided within a few days, arthritis subsided without disability, recurrence is rare, in the acute stage of arthritis patients can be accompanied by fever, sore throat, palpitation, rapid ESR and other manifestations, the condition can return to normal after improvement.

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Rheumatoid arthritis, as an autoimmune disease, is associated with abnormal antigen antibody reaction. Immunosuppressants can only inhibit antigen antibody reaction and keep them at a low level, but can not be removed. Some patients see some patients with advanced rheumatoid arthritis who can't take care of themselves due to joint deformity and ankylosis, which is unnecessary.