they are both painful and debilitating, however, there are many medications on the market to help those who suffer from these diseases.
Analgesics are painkillers and arthritis can be a painful disease.
No. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease ankylosing spondilitis is not.
Your job may make the pain worse, but the condition is more likely caused by age, previous injury, arthritis, osteoporosis and/or low bone density. You would need to ask your doctor for further information.
Since osteoporosis is a disease of bone tissue that has lost its density, then scanning the bones to see if they are affected is the only sure way of determining if a person has the disease.
That would be plague.
If you are getting the symptoms of arthritis in both hands then it is likely that you have RA rheumatoid Arthritis it would be wise to have this checked out with your doctor in order to prevent the damage that this disease can do to your hands and other joints that are not presently effected.
reactive arthritis
Degenerative Joint Disease or osteo arthritis is a form of arthritis that is most like to a result of wear and teat or injury. For more information on this disease Go to the related link (Degenerative Joint Disease) below.
I'm not sure why you would do this. Blood tests are given routinely to patients with arthritis to check for other medical problems, such as autoimmune disease, that could be causing the arthritis. If these conditions are discovered, they can be treated, and potentially the arthritis can get better.
It depends on the specific problem that the arthritis is causing. It would be best to have it checked out by a medical professional first. exercise can be very goo in delaying the need for treatment in the case of many forms of arthritis.
There is no decisive answer to this question. The answer would depend on which of these diseases you have been diagnosed with. The disease you suffer from, be it IBD or Crohns would always be far worse than one you do not experience.
this is not known. Medical authority's don't have a clue what causes arthritis or what would cause a flareup in the disease.