Early symptoms of rheumatism

Most rheumatic diseases have joint symptoms. Every patient has the same disease, but different courses of illness have their own particularities. Therefore, we need to develop a personal treatment plan, which will help improve the condition. So what are the main early symptoms of rheumatism and what are the clinical manifestations? The early symptoms of rheumatism include joint pain.

Sometimes changes in weather affect the intensity of pain, and sometimes when it becomes serious, you need to take painkillers. The clinical manifestations vary in severity, making it difficult to judge the severity of the disease, and the onset is also relatively hidden, so patient treatment is still required.

Rheumatism is a group of diseases that mainly affect joints, bones, muscles, blood vessels and related soft tissues or connective tissues, most of which are autoimmune diseases. The onset is often hidden and slow, with a long course of illness.

Common symptoms:

1. Rheumatic diseases mostly involve joint lesions and symptoms, which can be as high as 70-80%. About 50% only experience pain, while severe cases have comprehensive inflammatory manifestations such as redness, swelling, heat, pain and impaired function; most of the time, multiple joints are affected. The size of the joints affected varies depending on the type of disease.

2. Heterogeneity, that is, the same disease has different subtypes. Due to different genetic backgrounds, causes and mechanisms, the types, symptoms, severity and treatment responses of clinical manifestations are also different.

3. Rheumatic diseases are mostly multi-system diseases. The pathologies of many diseases overlap and the symptoms are similar. MCTD is a typical example of this.

4. Various antibodies and immune complexes appear in the serum and can be deposited in tissues (skin, synovium) or organs to cause disease.

5. Raynaud's phenomenon often occurs in this type of disease.

Based on what we have learned above, most rheumatic diseases cannot be cured. What we can do is to actively cooperate with medical staff, persist in treatment, and prolong the patient's life as much as possible. Only in this way can we relieve our symptoms, restore functions and improve our quality of life.