What is rheumatism like

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I just retired. Not long ago, I had pain in all joints of my body. For a time, I couldn't go down to the ground and take any medicine. I went to the hospital for examination and said that it was rheumatoid arthritis. I heard that it was very difficult to get rid of this disease. In order to prevent you from having the same disease, I'd like to introduce what rheumatism is like.

What is rheumatism like

Symptom 1: morning stiffness, joint stiffness to get up in the morning obviously, reduce after activity, known as morning stiffness. Usually, after getting up, the affected joint is stiff and painful, and the activity is limited. As time goes on, the activity increases, and the stiffness is relieved. Stiffness first occurs in the finger joints, can't clench in the morning, if the disease develops, can appear the whole body stiffness. The degree of joint stiffness can be used as an index to evaluate the changes and activity of the disease. The longer the time of getting up in the morning, the more serious the disease is.

Symptom 2: pain, finger, wrist, toe, ankle joint first swelling and pain, or single, or multiple, ups and downs, gradually spread to elbow, shoulder, knee, ilium and temporomandibular joint, symmetrical onset. After the symptoms of pain appear in patients with internal rheumatism, the pain will be aggravated with the change of weather and the recurrence of the disease.

Symptom 3: swelling, inflammatory effusion in the joint cavity, characterized by diffuse swelling or redness of the joint, mainly in the four small joints, and fusiform swelling of the finger joints. When the disease is relieved, joint swelling can disappear.

matters needing attention

Internal rheumatism patients must understand the symptoms of the disease, at the same time, in the daily diet, should choose high protein and high vitamin food.