What does arthritis feel like?

Answer 1

Because Arthritis is found in so many forms it would be very difficult to give the answer to this question on this page. Therefore if you follow the link below (How To Recognize the Signs and Symptoms of Arthritis) You will find a comprehensive answer to your question.

Answer 2

I don't know how it effects others. And pain can be a difficult thing to describe. Often a lot involved in the unpleasantness of pain is our own attitude towards it. My Mother had serious problems with RA and many other health problems . Living so close to that and witnessing her can do and keep going regardless attitude probably made my own problems there seem less urgent. However in my own particular case There seem to be different stages and therefore a different type of pain depending on what stage. The first Symptoms that I had involving RA was when I would have been about 7 or 8 years old and at that stage I had a tightness in the upper part of the calf and sometimes the upper part of the arms near the shoulder. this pain would be easiest associated with the sort of pain you would get in muscles after over exercising them. Definitely painful but manageable. As I got older however the pain rather then only being the result of inflammation started to include that of actual damaged tissue. This included the original tightness as well as a dull and at the same time hot pain that radiated out from the joint in question. Generally there were 2 or 3 places at the same time doing this. This pain could be worked through although it does tend to slow one down a bit. Finally I ended up having an elbow joint replaced. The pain that you get from that sort of situation definitely has an effect on all of your activity's as you get all of the types of pain described earlier but when you end up with bone on bone an extra sharpens is introduced where it is virtually impossible to be philosophical about it. I wakes you up every time you move when asleep . limits the positions you can sleep in and impacts on your ability to do things that were once easy. I have never taken it to the point where the pain has reached burnout point because with the drugs and medical facility's available in Australia these days even to those that have no cash or insurance that would be an unlikely situation. Keep in mind that I probably suffered more then I should have as a result of RA because I started treatment later then I should have leading to a lot of damage that could have been avoided.

Answer 3

Arthritis pain can be when the joints are inflamed by the immune system attacking the joints.or the bones at joints coming into contact with each other as a result of cartilage damage. damage to tendons bone and muscles can all add different perspectives to to the reasons for the pain caused by the more then a hundred different forms of arthritis.

Answer 4

Pain can be a difficult thing to describe. It is different to different people; It is like asking what does red look like. However having had the disease for many years All i can say is that it comes in different categories. For example when I was younger the pain presented itself in the form of a dull hot ache that at times had a throb in the background this usually occurred more in the muscles adjacent to the joints rather then the joints. Or one could get a shaper more localised pain that was sensitive to pressure like in the feet for example, it would start some where like on top of the foot and eventually spread all over making walking very difficult, especially when as is the nature of the disease it hits you in both feet at the same time. Then there is the sort of pain you get from inflammation around nerves like carpel tunnel syndrome. this starts of as light tingling in some of the fingers which eventually becomes an extremely sharp tingling agony that you just cant get away from this can also happen in other parts of the body it all depends on where the inflammation is or where nerves are pressured between bones where the cartilage has disintegrated. then there is a sharper more local pain that happens when cartilage is gone and bone is on bone in joint. I for example had this happen in one of my elbows and the only way to alleviate it was to have the damaged elbow joint replaced with a steel one. There is more then just pain involved here. Weakening of mascles irritation of dry eyes and problems with other organs can also be a part of it. So al depending on the severity of the symptoms you can end up with a whole variety of different forms of pain.

Answer 5

Feels like having a crow bar trying to split it apart

Answer 6

Painfull

Answer 7

Painful