Early symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis

The onset of rheumatoid arthritis is generally very slow, and there are many symptoms. Patients will encounter many difficulties in treatment. If it develops into a chronic rheumatoid disease, it will cause very serious harm and will be even more difficult to treat. Everyone should understand some of the early symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. If it can be treated as early as possible, many impacts can be avoided.

Rheumatoid arthritis is very common in women, and the incidence rate is generally higher when the patients are between 40 and 60 years old. Everyone should understand the early symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Only by knowing some early symptoms can we avoid more serious illness and reduce the impact.

Early symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis

Morning stiffness:

More than 95% of patients experience morning joint stiffness. Morning stiffness refers to the prolonged stiffness and limited movement of the affected joint when you wake up in the morning after the affected joint has been motionless at night. Morning stiffness is often the first symptom of joint involvement, mostly appearing before joint pain. When the condition is severe, stiffness may occur in joints throughout the body. The symptoms of morning stiffness may be alleviated or disappear after getting up and moving around or warming up. Morning stiffness is often accompanied by coldness and numbness of the extremities or fingers (toes).

Joint friction sound:

During the inflammatory period of rheumatoid arthritis, the examiner's hand can often feel a fine crackling sound or a feeling of gripping snow when moving the joint, typically in the elbows and knees, which indicates inflammation of the joint. After the inflammation of some joints subsides, a clicking sound can be heard or touched when moving the joints. This is most obvious in the fingers, knees, and hip joints. It may be caused by rheumatoid arthritis accompanied by bone hyperplasia.

Joint pain and tenderness:

The vast majority of patients begin to develop joint swelling. The swelling is caused by increased exudate in the joint cavity and inflammatory changes in the soft tissue around the joints, and manifests as uniform swelling around the joints. The fusiform swelling of the proximal joints of the fingers is one of the typical symptoms of rheumatoid patients. The severity of joint pain is usually parallel to the degree of swelling. The more obvious the joint swelling, the more severe the pain, even severe pain.

We have introduced the early symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis above. We hope that everyone can understand it in detail. This disease is very common among women, especially after middle age. Everyone should pay attention to the onset of this disease in time. It is important to do scientific prevention. If rheumatoid arthritis is found, go to a regular hospital for treatment.