What are the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis

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Granny Zhang's joints are not very good, it's easy to get hurt. Recently, she always feels pain in her joints and makes noises when walking. She went to the hospital for examination. The doctor said it's rheumatoid arthritis. Now let me talk about the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.

What are the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis

First: pain: it is helpful to judge whether the pain comes from joint disease by the location of pain. The early symptoms of rheumatism must distinguish the pain caused by local lesions from that caused by systemic lesions. Fatigue: is the most common early symptoms of rheumatism, in severe cases even make patients unable to complete daily activities.

Second: early symptoms of rheumatism and joint swelling and tenderness: usually seen in painful joints, is a sign of synovitis or peripheral soft tissue inflammation, its degree varies with the severity of inflammation. It can be caused by joint cavity effusion or synovial hypertrophy. Osteoproliferative hypertrophy is more common in osteoarthritis.

Third: from the perspective of pathological changes, rheumatoid arthritis is a kind of extensive inflammatory disease, which mainly involves the synovium (later can affect articular cartilage, bone tissue, joint ligament and tendon), followed by the serosa, heart, lung and eye and other connective tissue. Therefore, in addition to the above manifestations of arthritis, patients can also have other systemic manifestations, such as fever, fatigue, weight loss, subcutaneous nodules, pericarditis, pleurisy, peripheral neuropathy, eye lesions, arteritis, etc.

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Rheumatoid arthritis is a very common joint disease. The most common symptoms of patients in the initial stage are joint pain and swelling. In addition, patients will feel tired and weak. At the same time, some patients will have other systemic manifestations, such as fever.